I'm nearly sure I've drunk in a pub in a little alley off Fleet Street
called The Empress or Empress of something, but when I drink ...
Leona
> From: Alan Halsey <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Alan Halsey <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:17:58 +0100
> To: Nate and Jane Dorward <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: small query
>
> In message <007101c02d01$3711bb20$42776395@default>, Nate and Jane
> Dorward <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> Candice: yes, Fleet Street & journalism. Though I've had a few creative
>> backchannel readings (Fleet as debtor's prison e.g.).
>
> I wasn't being 'creative' in that bit, Nate - 'Fleet' by itself means
> the prison (mainly for debtors) - it has to have the 'Street' added to
> it to get the journalism meaning. Collins dictionary hovers around
> 'impress' as 'press-gang'. But there could be some double puns knocking
> around there - 'Fleet' as in navy punned back by 'press' as in
> nowspapers. But sure maybe he wasn't being anything like as tricky.
> Best, A
>
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