On 2015-03-03, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> 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.
That's a proper noun. It's derived from *Old Norse*, which hasn't been spoken by anyone since about the year 1,300. It has nothing at all to do with English, let alone English as it is spoken by anyone alive today. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
