Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:37:52 +0000

From: "C.Thomas" EGP95CMT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHEFFIELD.AC.UK

Subject: Re: Five & Dime / Dime store



As an English person I'm very interested to hear what "Five and

Dime" means, as it always baffled me in that popular Bryan Adams song

"Summer of '69":



"Got my first real six-string

Bought it at the Five and Dime

Played it till my fingers bled

Was the summer of '69"



Not only did I not know what it meant but I wan't even sure if that

was what the lyric actually said. And i know several other english

people speak of this as the "line which nobody knows what it says."



Charlotte





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Charlotte Thomas EGP95CMT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Sheffield.ac.uk

CECTAL

Dept. of English Language and Linguistics

University of Sheffield

Sheffield

S10 2TN

UK