"pub" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a public house or tavern where alcoholic beverages are served. For example: "We decided to meet at the pub after work."
There are good reasons to be supporting bingo, there are good reasons to be encouraging our pub sector to be stronger - that's the analysis behind those measures".
There's a reason they're so popular, they're generally quite safe, and there's usually a good pub or two nearby.
I remember being on a bill with him about 10 years ago in a little pub in Islington.
The lifeblood of the village is the Kings Head pub, which draws people away from the site in the evening.
The London Beer Hunt, a "cryptic pub crawl" around east London where participants are given a map, clues and the challenge of finding bottles of craft beer, is another.
Russell Drysdale's painting, The Cricketers comes to mind, for its stone pub and veranda profile.
It's intriguing that Withers has made his living writing advertising jingles, putting him somewhere in the pages of a pub pop quiz alongside Barry Manilow (whose credits in his early career include songs for Stridex acne fighting products) and Justin Hawkins of the Darkness (everyone from Ikea to Irn Bru).
Erect in his seat in a north London pub, his slim 6ft 5in wrapped in layers of fitted menswear, Blake drinks a coffee and indulges in that great British pleasure: the meandering, recreational moan.
He insists he will not engage in any in-your-face evangelising, disturbing those who go to the pub for a quiet pint on a Monday: "I'm not looking to bother anybody.
Things have grown a bit more sophisticated since the days when players bought a pub as a pension scheme: offshore hedge funds and convertible stock options are more the financial order of things.
Wetherspoon is stepping up its efforts in the breakfast market to counteract slowing sales growth and what it says is the malign effect of cheap supermarket alcohol on the pub trade.
