Sad hour

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 7 15:42:12 UTC 2014


I wonder if "dive bar" is a regionalism.

DanG


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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> Good question. It might be a retronym to distinguish it from dive
> restaurants. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dive says "A seedy bar,
> nightclub, etc."
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> On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:49 AM, John Doe <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com
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> >> dive bar
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> > In what way does a "dive *bar*" distinguish itself from an ordinary
> "dive"?
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