"spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store', aka 'convenience store'?

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
> "spa" = 'neighborhood grocery store'

FWIW, I first read of this use of _spa_ in Mario Pei's Story of English.

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