Mine host

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My host, surely? AIBU to be driven mad by this or am I missing something?

What?

Advert for a pub in my local free newspaper. 'Mine host Shelley and Graham'.

Review I just read on booking.com 'mine host Terry did an excellent breakfast.'

Like the dog thread Yabu for making a thread that people won't understand without some sort of back story....

It's a saying from yesteryear

It's the sort of thing Nigel Farage would say.

No it's what you used to call a pub landlord/lady, obviously still do in some areas

Mine host is traditional though isn't it? I think mine is the archaic version of my

"hosts", surely? Shelley and Graham?

LADY MACBETH
Your servants ever
Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs in compt,
To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,
Still to return your own.
DUNCAN
     Give me your hand.
Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly
And shall continue our graces towards him.
By your leave, hostess.

yes i think i just made a twat of myself

Ah good to know! Thanks for clearing that up WinchesterWoman.

And yes it must have been mine hosts in the case of Shelley and Graham.

am I missing something?

The ability to google perhaps?

But if I'd googled it I wouldn't have got a quote from Shakespeare. Better result on MN.

I thought it was germanglish, Mein Host? Maybe not...

Per the Oxford English Dictionary's entry for host: "A man who lodges and entertains for payment; a man who keeps a public place of lodging or entertainment; the landlord of an inn. Often in archaic phr. mine (my) host = the landlord of such and such an inn."

The ad should probably say "mine hosts".

I always thought it was 'mein', too, tinkle. Live and learn.

Yeah, just a slightly tongue-in-cheek deliberately old fashioned way of saying 'my host'. But like calling something 'ye olde' rather than just saying 'the old...'.