In Block's Scudder books, there are often mentions of "SROs,"
which
are some kind of hotel or boarding house. I'd only known this
to
stand for Standing Room Only, but an acronym web site turns
up Single
Room Occupancy. Is this what I'd call a bachelor apartment?
One
room, probably fairly small, with a mini-kitchen at one side
(or maybe
just a tip to go get a hot-plate) and a bathroom in a small
little
separate room? (Is this what they call a bed-sitter in the
U.K.?)
Also, on the alcohol topic, Americans in books always seem to
be
picking up fifths of liquor. Just how many ounces is this?
Bonus
marks for converting to litres, because there are all those
different
kinds of ounces.
Thanks,
Bill
--
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