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  2. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    A school that has a street address and building as opposed to an online school, which may have a main office building, but students can be located in a different locale than the teachers. The internet is used as a conduit for information exchanges, both synchronously and asynchronously.

  3. List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

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    So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. "the French", "the Dutch") provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words.

  4. Tavern - Wikipedia

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    The legacy of taverns and inns is now only found in the pub names, e.g. Fitzroy Tavern, Silver Cross Tavern, Spaniards Inn, etc. The word also survives in songs such as "There is a Tavern in the Town". [4] The range and quality of pubs varies wildly throughout the UK as does the range of beers, wines, spirits and foods available.

  5. Pub names - Wikipedia

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    Rose Tavern, a pub in Wisbech, Isle of Ely. [3] Vine or Grapes possibly harks back to the Roman custom of displaying a vine outside a tavern or wine-shop, as in The Hoop and Grapes in Aldgate High Street, London (reputed to be the city's oldest pub) and the Vine, Wisbech (now closed). [3] Wheatsheaf, a Wetherspoon pub in Wisbech. [3]

  6. List of fictional bars and pubs - Wikipedia

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    Candy Tavern/Dirt Beer Guy's Tavern – Adventure Time/Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake; The Cap & Bell – Saloon Bar (1940) The Cat & Fiddle – the other pub in The Archers, BBC radio series; Catherines Bar – Death in Paradise; Charlie's – Harvey (1950), starring James Stewart; Charlie's – Neighbours

  7. Drinking establishment - Wikipedia

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    A tavern or pot-house is, loosely, a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food, though not licensed to put up guests. The word derives from the Latin taberna and the Greek ταβέρνα / taverna , whose original meaning was a shed or workshop .

  8. Boar's Head Inn - Wikipedia

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    The Boar's Head Inn is the name of several former and current taverns in London, most famously a tavern in Eastcheap that is supposedly the meeting place of Sir John Falstaff, Prince Hal and other characters in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. An earlier tavern in Southwark used the same name, and an inn of the name in Whitechapel was used as a ...

  9. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Such adjective phrases can be integrated into the clause (e.g., Love dies young) or detached from the clause as a supplement (e.g., Happy to see her, I wept). Adjective phrases functioning as predicative adjuncts are typically interpreted with the subject of the main clause being the predicand of the adjunct (i.e., "I was happy to see her"). [11]