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and bars in the late 1920s and early '30s. Michael Quinion's World Wide Words offers half a dozen intriguing possibilities: 86 Bedford Street was the street address for Chumley's, a rowdy New York speakeasy that often forcibly ejected, or "eighty-sixed," drunk and disorderly patrons. • While most bars served 100-proof alcohol, troublesome clients were often served the "watered down" 86-proof booze. • A popular menu item was number 86, and so was often out. • A very popular New York restaurant only had 85 tables. • A n early New York streetcar line ran from 14th street to — you guessed it — 86th Street. Conductors would call out "Eighty six! End of the line!" • I n the British merchant marines, crews were held to 85, so the 86th man was left behind. Quinion himself seems partial to the explanation offered up by the Oxford English Dictionary — "eightysix" is rhyming slang for "nix". Four score and seven years ago... - «Восемьдесят семь лет тому назад...» (Геттисбергское обращение Авраама Линкольна, 1863) • Four score, standing for 80, is nowadays archaic; famously used in the opening of the Gettysburg Address, one of the most well-known speeches in United States history. It was delivered by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on 124