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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto:owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]On
> Behalf Of William Denton
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 2:25 PM
> To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Dialect: SROs and
fifths
>
>
> Hi,
>
> 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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