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On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 04:51, Eric Christopherson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: You do not specify what *your* native dialect is, so it's hard to say. In much of the UK, probably most, yes, "down the /x/" is idiomatic. "I was talking to this bloke down the pub..." "There's a great offer down the computer market on Tottenham Court Road..." "I was down the gym last night and I saw..." It means "at the", roughly, I'd say. "Down the bunker" parses fine for me. Not that I am aware of, no. However, Yorkshire and Lancashire English tend to reduce the definite article to a prefixed /t/ sound, e.g. "t'pub". See the unofficial Yorkshire national anthem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Ilkla_Moor_Baht_%27at "Baht 'at" means "bar t'hat". "Bar" as in "all bar one" -- "without" or "except". In other words, the singer was on Ilkley Moor without his hat. This t' prefix is jocularly used for the Internet, for instance: "t'Internet". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%27internet Those who do not understand the reference reduce this to the meaningless "tinternet". As certain successive consonants without an intervening vowel sound are uncommon in English, those who don't know what this "t'" sound means can fail to distinguish it. Compare with the Hindi (I yhink) words "bindi" and "bhindi". The former is a forehead adornment. The latter is the vegetable, okra. Many Indian restaurants serve bhindi bhaji, but because Anglophones mostly can't pronounce /b/ followed by /h/, if you ask for "bindi baji" instead of "bhindi bhaji" you do not get a forehead jewel shaped like an okra pod. So you could say "I'm going down t'bunker" and to the untrained ear it would sound like "down the bunker". But I doubt this is what was meant. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053