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- 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
- word choice - Can I call a cashier in a store a “clerk”? - English . . .
As to the first part of your question—about cashiers—Merriam-Webster gives as its definition 3c of clerk “one who works at a sales or service counter,” and it provides the usage example a grocery clerk
- Is there a better term for a groceries divider bar?
Divider is the most commonly appearing word in all the variant names used by advertising companies and manufacturers that appear in a search: grocery divider, checkout lane divider, lane divider, and so on, but the largest number of image results, for example, come up for checkout divider
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The produce aisle is usually rather different from other aisles in a supermarket or grocery store It is usually wide and runs along the wall: the right-hand wall in right-hand–drive countries and the left-hand wall in clockwise or left-hand–drive ones
- 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 n
- 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
- grammaticality - Do a shop for go shopping - English Language . . .
"Do a shop" or "Do the shop" is a specific task, eg the weekly trip to the supermarket for the big grocery shop "Go shopping" is a more general, recreational, go out and look at the shops but with no specific aim
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