Red light district

[Aaron E. Drews]

on 25/4/00 4:40 PM, Peter A. McGraw wrote:


> Does anybody know the real origin of "red light district"?
>

There still are actual red lights in the (in)appropriate districts of
Amsterdam and Paris, from what I'm told.  I don't know how far these
locations are from the rail stations.

More amusingly, the Edinburgh University Centre for Reproductive Studies has
a red light at its door.

--Aaron

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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                    Theoretical & Applied Linguistics

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