No soap, dove bar -- was "dive bar"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/11/2014 12:17 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
>
>God DAMN stigmatic, computerized, misspell-check! Which has just replaced
>"automatic" with "stigmatic." <sigh!> :-(
>
>"a 'dive' bar"

I had no problem, I simply thought you had been there and left.

Joel

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