Dive (was Re: Sad hour)

[Jonathan Lighter]

> OTOH, I heard a phrase used just today that I thought had become extinct
in
the '60's.

Yeah, but I didn't hear it till the mid '70s, so what are ya gonna do?

JL


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> > > My problem isn't with *what* it is, but *why* it is. I can't get a
> handle
> > > on calling a bar A "dove" bar.
> >
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> God DAMN stigmatic, computerized, misspell-check! Which has just replaced
> "automatic" with "stigmatic." <sigh!> :-(
>
> "a 'dive' bar"
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