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Wow "publican" is a real word, cool! As an American, I have never heard this and thought you were making it up. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/publican

• CatsoCatsoCatso 12y ago
  It's a great word but it's not one I've heard often in person, usually people just say landlord. (I live in Southern England, and this comment is only from my experience.)
  • snowy 12y ago
    Ireland here we use publican.
    • phillc73 12y ago
      Publican is common in Australia.
• ptaipale 12y ago
  For me it sounds like a real word, but refers to a tax collector (with similar connotations as "collaborator", though not quite "quisling".)
  • ptaipale 12y ago
    Surprised that people dislike this comment. This is a meaning for "publican" much older than pubs, and the also the meaning of "publican" as described in Wikipedia [0] and as many of us have learned at school about Gospel of Luke (where this role of a despised tax collector or collaborator with the occupying Roman empire was at heart of the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican). [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publican http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publican [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisee_and_the_Publican http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisee_and_the_Publican
• _asummers 12y ago
  Semi-OT, there's an excellent bar/restaurant in Chicago named Publican. If you're ever in Chicago, you should check it out.