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On 03/03/2015 04:04, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:12:24 +0000 (UTC), Jon Ribbens
> <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> declaimed the following:
>
>> On 2015-03-02, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>> 	A pub's a bar; a bar's a gate; a gate's a street
>>
>> If each of those is supposed to be English first and then the American
>> equivalent second, then I'm afraid the first one is misleading and the
>> other two are just nonsense.
>
> 	Not based on some of what I found in York while on TDY... Where the
> entries to the old town -- what an American might call a gate -- were all
> named <something>bar, and the streets passing through those tended to have
> names ending in gate. "Micklegate Bar Museum", for example, where
> Micklegate passes through the city wall. Otherside of the old town has
> Goodramgate turning into Monksgate as it passes through... Monk Bar.
> Walmgate passes through Walmgate Bar
>
>
> 	The quote's not even mine -- I encountered it decades ago.
>

Come to sunny Christchurch, Dorset and you encounter the street/district 
that is simply "Bargates".

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence