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Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

...use the word 'shopping', but not the word 'shop'?

Technically, they should call it 'storing', but then they'd have no word to apply to actual storing. They'd get home from a day's hard storing and then pack all their storing away for um... um... yeah.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:23 pm

We use the word shop as a noun synonymous with store, just not very often.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Yeah, I thought you must use shop sometimes, I mean, especially to avoid the kind of mess I've just described.

Wes C. Addle · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm **Posts:** 45120

cutuphalfdead wrote:

We use the word shop as a noun synonymous with store, just not very often.

Wes C. Addle · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm **Posts:** 45120

Is this a thread to show that Americans have bastardized the English language?

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Wes C. Addle wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

We use the word shop as a noun synonymous with store, just not very often.

Verb usage.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Wes C. Addle wrote:

Is this a thread to show that Americans have bastardized the English language?

Not at all, just a question which popped into my head. Sometimes I even drop the letter 'u' from my words because I respect you guys so much.

Wes C. Addle · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm **Posts:** 45120

Harmless wrote:

Wes C. Addle wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

We use the word shop as a noun synonymous with store, just not very often.

Verb usage.

I know, but it was more for Peter's benefit then this threads benefit.

I'm just saying that also thats the name the Shop.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:31 pm

Stop & Shop is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Wes C. Addle · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm **Posts:** 45120

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stop & Shop is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts.

I know that's why I posted it, it was totally for your BENEFIT.

True story, there's a Stop & Shop in Ogden, Utah.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:32 pm

Wes C. Addle wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Stop & Shop is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts.

I know that's why I posted it, it was totally for your BENEFIT.

True story, there's a Stop & Shop in Ogden, Utah.

I've smoked weed in the parking garage of their corporate headquarters.

Rebar · **Posted:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:33 pm

There are a few places I refer to as a "shop". The surf shop, for one.

Wes C. Addle · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm **Posts:** 45120

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

There are a few places I refer to as a "shop". The surf shop, for one.

surfer dude post.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

There are a few places I refer to as a "shop". The surf shop, for one.

Ah yes, the good ol' surf shop.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:38 pm

Coffee shop.

Self Polluted · **Joined:** Tue May 09, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 8393

Harmless wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

There are a few places I refer to as a "shop". The surf shop, for one.

Ah yes, the good ol' head shop.

Wes C. Addle · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm **Posts:** 45120

Bike Shop

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:39 pm

Self Polluted wrote:

Harmless wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

There are a few places I refer to as a "shop". The surf shop, for one.

Ah yes, the good ol' head shop.

mmhmmm

Wes C. Addle · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:17 pm **Posts:** 45120

Ice Cream Shoppe

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Isn't it weird that Americans...

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