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there's nothing I can see in the poem that indicates GWBush is specifically intended (Old Europe is a hackneyed usage of hoary provenance) and certainly not 'old yerp'.

Formulations like 'coffee shop' are normal in English. In the sense that it's used as a demotic alternative to the frenchified 'cafe' it's probably yet another echo of the dual parentage of the language (I know the etymology of is Turkish_Arabic).

Concise Oxford definition of 'cafe' = 'coffee shop'.

As for colonies, I've never owned one.

2009/9/19 Pam Brown <[log in to unmask]>
Dear David,

In one of my poems on The Argotist Online the reference to 'old europe' is an ironic reference to George W Bush's use of the term pronounced, by him, 'old yerp'.

Happy to hear you say 'coffee shop' in Britain, perhaps that's its origin in the colony (that's ironic too).

Regards,
Pam Brown


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