- Is it common to use “grocery” as a verb? - English Language Usage . . .
6 Grocery shop is a common collocation in which shop is used in the verb sense and grocery is a colloquially back-formed singular of the object of shopping: groceries (groceries being what one purchases at a grocery) The long form would be We used to shop for groceries together
- Is it acceptable in American English to pronounce grocery as groshery?
For example, pronouncing GROCERY as GRAW-SER-AY would be incorrect; which essentially sums up my argument While it is true that a word can be pronounced "incorrectly", this particular word has several "correct", and widespread pronunciations that are under-represented in many dictionaries
- Blanket term for things we often buy at grocery store that are not . . .
I’m looking for a term to cover the kinds of things that we frequently buy at the grocery store but that are not actually groceries The term needs to include things like: toilet paper, kitchen napkins, band aids, detergents (laundry, dish), cleansers, bath soap and shampoo, paper towels, trash bags, hand cream, tooth paste, sun block, hair
- Word to call a person that works in a store
What kind of store do you mean? Dept store? Grocery store? The answer may vary Also, many larger stores have cashiers, stockers, and salespersons
- prepositions - Does until [date] mean before that date? - English . . .
What does until mean in the following? You need to deliver this product within 2 days (until August 18, 2011) to meet your deadline and get paid Does this mean that I have to deliver the produ
- capitalization - To capitalize department or not - English Language . . .
When using the word 'department' (or 'group', 'committee', and the like) as part of a recognized name it would be capitalized: Bill recently joined the Advertising Department If using 'department' not as part of a specific name it would be lower case: We had a party to welcome Bill to the department As a further note, you could also drop the 'Department' and re-write the first sentence as
- Pricey vs. Pricy - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
First of all, dictionaries list both spellings, and pricy is generally listed as a variant spelling of pricey, not the other way round, at least in the dictionaries I have checked (Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, New Oxford American Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionaries Online) Secondly, the usage stats from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the
- Lunch vs. dinner vs. supper — times and meanings?
There's actually quite a bit of variation in different regions of the US As I said, it's quite common to hear Dinner as the noontime meal in many areas of the American South I've noticed that there's even a split in Texas where some regions use Lunch Dinner and others use Dinner Supper These differences have tended to mix up and get confused as people from different regions have mixed, and
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