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Old 03-10-2020, 12:38 PM   #1
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I'm preparing a book by German writer Klaus Mann. The book is in German, but the protagonist ends up in L.A. in the 1920s where he hopes for a break as a film actor. Things aren't going so well though, and he is forced to pawn his watch.

Which leads us to my little problem: In Mann's book, he goes to a "Goan-office". Obviously a typo for loan office I thought (still think, actually), but the spelling turns up twice, and so I want to make sure about the existence of "goan offices"...

I've drawn blanks in the OED and on the Internet, but MRers can't be beat, so I thought I'd ask here as well.
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Old 03-10-2020, 03:34 PM   #2
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Never heard of goan-office, but I can't say loan-office is familiar. Probably pawn shop.
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Old 03-10-2020, 03:52 PM   #3
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Thanks.

Yes, the guy is definitely going to a pawn shop, but that's not what "goan office" could be a typo for. And, though the OED has it only with other meanings, I did come across "loan office" as a synonym for pawn shop somewhere when I searched for it online.
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Yes, the guy is definitely going to a pawn shop, but that's not what "goan office" could be a typo for. And, though the OED has it only with other meanings, I did come across "loan office" as a synonym for pawn shop somewhere when I searched for it online.
I should have done a search. Yeah, loan office seems to be part of the business name for a huge number of pawn shops.
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So loan office will probably be what the author had in mind, right?
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So loan office will probably be what the author had in mind, right?
According to https://www.thefreedictionary.com/loan+office
yes.
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Brilliant. Thanks a lot!
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