Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com>:
>>On 2015-03-02, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>> A pub's a bar; a bar's a gate; a gate's a street
>
> Not based on some of what I found in York while on TDY... Where the
> entries to the old town -- what an American might call a gate -- were all
> named <something>bar, and the streets passing through those tended to have
> names ending in gate. "Micklegate Bar Museum", for example, where
> Micklegate passes through the city wall. Otherside of the old town has
> Goodramgate turning into Monksgate as it passes through... Monk Bar.
> Walmgate passes through Walmgate Bar
That meaning ultimately comes from:
3. (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining
form to make the name of a street.
<URL: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gate#Etymology_2>.
That's because the Danes once ruled the place: <URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw>, <URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heathen_Army>.
Marko
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