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#1 2008-03-17 20:19:07

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'youth hostile' for 'youth hostel'

This is common and most usually just a misspelling, but some hostels sound like pretty hostile environments. Like these:

There is a place in a town that is little known, this place is a youth hostile owned by Mr Jack Carnem. Carnem was once a convict … Carnem Youth Hostile …
m1ss1ng.proboards104.com/index.cgi

In worst cases, the youth is sent to the Youth Hostile until his/her 18th … In the past month, there have been many youths sentenced to the Youth Hostile.
www.ambergriscayenews.com/html/archives.php?p=011206

me and a few mates are going to london for a few nights and we need a place to crash, like a youth hostile, something cheap …
www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread/t-103287.html

One thing i gotta say the Accomidation (youth hostile) was complete bollocks.
www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=959807280

New Orleans Trip…
This building next to the Marquette House youth hostile should have been our first impression of things to come.
www.schnozzle.org/~jason/summer2000/new_orleans.html

Social Service List
Hollywood Youth Hostile. Lord’s Lighthouse (Presbyter. Church.) Yucca off Gower. Methadone – Drug rehab …
www.franklinhollywoodhills.org/social_service_list.htm

If I was in Italy crashing at a youth hostile would I have to sleep in a fouton with fifteen sketchy people, just to pay 8 dollars a night?
ilovechutney.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/brothers-on-a-hotel-bed/

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