On 03/03/2015 04:04, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:12:24 +0000 (UTC), Jon Ribbens
<jon+use...@unequivocal.co.uk> declaimed the following:
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
If each of those is supposed to be English first and then the American
equivalent second, then I'm afraid the first one is misleading and the
other two are just nonsense.
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
The quote's not even mine -- I encountered it decades ago.
Come to sunny Christchurch, Dorset and you encounter the street/district
that is simply "Bargates".
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