When did shops become stores??

Harry Palmr

"I could care less" about this theme.

sligojoek

I was like , "What time is it?"

She was like , "Four thirdee"

eviltimeban

I'm not going to "get some sleep". I'm either going to bed or going to sleep. Why would I just get "some" sleep?

bnt

Thinking about it, I tend to use "shop" for small places and "store" for larger places. I've visited a couple of Walmart Superstores while visiting friends in Texas, the word "shop" just doesn't come close to describing those places. So here it's a Centra corner shop and Dunnes Stores for me.

Harry Palmr

"Can I get....?" when ordering at a counter has to be the stupidest Americanism of the lot.

NO! You cannot get, I'll get it, that's what I'm paid to do.

Feisar

Harry Palmr wrote: »

"I could care less" about this theme.

That one always confused me. If one could care less it means they care to a certain degree at the moment.

s7ryf3925pivug

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

Roches Stores, started in the so called rebel county? Yeah, right! Michael Collins was the biggest traitor to this country!


BHS? Yeah, very Irish.

Ye West Brit-Americans sicken me!!



Answer me this! An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an siopa, más é do thoil é?!?!? :pac:

Since I moved to Limerick from the Southside of Dublin twelve years ago, I find that people often think I'm from the US or England. "Really?" they say, "- oh sorry." "No no," I reply, "I take it as a compliment."

Giraffe Box

Feisar wrote: »

That one always confused me. If one could care less it means they care to a certain degree at the moment.

True. It's a bit like saying:''I could give a shíte''.

wally79

Hamsterchops wrote: »

making sure not to clip the sidewalk pavement as I turn the corner beside that truck lorry .....

pavement? Surely you mean footpath. Bloody Americanisms

Central Services

My car is in the shop right now so I'm having to ride the bus.

Blueshoe

Calling it a store in my mind makes the building or business seem bigger and more choices than calling it a humble shop.

Blueshoe

Central Services wrote: »

My car is in the shop right now so I'm having to ride the bus.

Your transmission is probably shot.

whisky_galore

These seem to be creeping into everyday speech here:

Sidewalk.
Train Station.
Referring to Autumn as "Fall".
Eaterie.
Sick, as in "very good", not "ill".

Most corporate bullsh1t speak; reaching out, going forward, touch base, deliverables ...

Yester

Bite me. I never understood how this is used as an insult.

vektarman

Whenever I ask for a coffee to take away I'm given a funny look and asked "do you mean to go"?

KaneToad

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Since Dunnes.

And Roches

KaneToad

Blueshoe wrote: »

Your transmission is probably shot.

Maybe you got a bad fill of gas?

Central Services

Blueshoe wrote: »

Your transmission is probably shot.

No it was an auto collision on the highway, this douche in a truck cut me up. And I like braked. And this other guy drove right into me. The trunk and fenders all fxcked up and sh1t.

FVP3

wally79 wrote: »

pavement? Surely you mean footpath. Bloody Americanisms

Pavement is British english. A footpath is anything that can be used by pedestrians, not necessarily the side of a road.

Dravokivich

johndaman66 wrote: »

And Pharmacy is another one.

They're chemists FFS

Dunno, they seem more interested in selling beauty products these days.

padd b1975

ednwireland wrote: »

same time as basil became baysil

Is that Fawlty or the erb.

Alun

boombang wrote: »

I'm surprised at the demise of "at" as "stay at home" became "stay home". Idiots.

Equally the demise of "to", as in "are we allowed go out yet?" instead of "are we allowed to go out yet?".

Newbie20

A couple of things that drive me mad:

I always thought it was “data” (da-ta), now everyone says “day-ta”.
This must be Americanised surely? But so many people say it now I’m questioning whether I was right in the first place?

Another one I always said is “every second day”. Thought there was no other way of saying it. Now I hear “every other day”. How the hell does that mean every second day? Every other day surely should mean all the other days except the one you’re talking about. Was this always around? I’ve only heard it in the last few years and it’s rampant now!

Coming down the stairs is being replaced by “the stairwell”!

kowloon

Blueshoe wrote: »

Your transmission is probably shot.

You used to hear Americans call it a tranny, but they don't do that now.

Dravokivich wrote: »

Dunno, they seem more interested in selling beauty products these days.

I rang one up a while ago looking for acetone and they only sold it in tiny little bottles.

L1011

johndaman66 wrote: »

And Pharmacy is another one.

They're chemists FFS

Career has been called Pharmacist in Ireland for centuries, Chemist is more British.

Americans call them Drug Stores anyway.

CrankyHaus

In my experience the substitution of Store for Shop is overwhelmingly perpetrated by retail chains themselves, often British ones, in their official policies disseminated down to their employees.

Hard to blame this one on the yanks.

Zebra3

Madelynn Plump Cape wrote: »

Since I moved to Limerick from the Southside of Dublin twelve years ago, I find that people often think I'm from the US or England. "Really?" they say, "- oh sorry." "No no," I reply, "I take it as a compliment."

Why?

Mad_maxx

Blueshoe wrote: »

Your transmission is probably shot.

yeah im having to drive a " stick "

Sarn

whisky_galore wrote: »

These seem to be creeping into everyday speech here:

Sidewalk.
Train Station.
Referring to Autumn as "Fall".
Eaterie.
Sick, as in "very good", not "ill".

Most corporate bullsh1t speak; reaching out, going forward, touch base, deliverables ...

Train station as opposed to railway station? That just seems to be a logical alternative.

s7ryf3925pivug

Zebra3 wrote: »

Why?

I don't really.

I was attempting to annoy people who think you should be ashamed if your accent is one they object to. And I was trying to parody the stereotype of people with that accent. Don't think I did either very well though.

Hamsterchops

FVP3 wrote: »

Pavement is British english. A footpath is anything that can be used by pedestrians, not necessarily the side of a road.

I guess most of our words are from British English as opposed to American English. I will get very annoyed if Crisps come under threat from Chips!

Hamsterchops

L1011 wrote: »

Career has been called Pharmacist in Ireland for centuries, Chemist is more British.

Americans call them Drug Stores anyway.

Always called the chemist shop the chemist.
I'm off to the chemist for a bottle of TCP...

Then within maybe the last twelve, fifteen, twenty years? people have started calling the chemist shop the pharmacy, which is probably correct, but it is a change from the old name here in Ireland.

L1011

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Always called the chemist shop the chemist.
I'm off to the chemist for a bottle of TCP...

Then within maybe the last twelve, fifteen, twenty years? people have started calling the chemist shop the pharmacy, which is probably correct, but it is a change from the old name here in Ireland.

There may be some regional stuff here - e.g. Cork often seems to use English terms for things for some reason; but considering they *still* call them Chemists in the UK - Boots was even called "Boots the Chemist" until recently - its not like there's been a change to some other countries naming

The profession has always been Pharmacist in Ireland; the regulator is the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland.

An older term used in Ireland was Druggist, if you really insist on using old Irish names!

whisky_galore wrote: »

Sidewalk.
Train Station.
Referring to Autumn as "Fall".
Eaterie.
Sick, as in "very good", not "ill".

I have never heard anyone using Sidewalk; Train Station is what they are actually called in Northern Ireland; I have never heard anyone using Fall; Eatery is usually used as a pisstake and that meaning of Sick is more than a bit dated now.

Aren't pharmacy and chemistry different careers? A pharmacist is a health professional who dispenses medicines and a chemist is a scientist with a chemistry degree who works with and studies chemicals. I know pharmacies are called chemist shops in the UK, which I guess is strictly correct, though pharmacy seems more appropriate.

I've always said Department Store but never Book Store etc.

L1011

I think store/shop may be somewhat specific to the product. Thinking of what I'd use as defaults myself:

Record store (shop sounds totally wrong here)
Bookshop (store is jarringly American here)
Clothes shop (store is still American here)
Hardware store (shop can work here)

With there being no universal standard

This excludes the various things that you add neither to (butchers, greengrocers) or end in -y (bakery, haberdashery if you're ancient)

RobbingBandit

Jebus h Christmas we need an orgy and lots of drugs and booze the standard of threads is bare round here time to tinderize

padd b1975

Mad_maxx wrote: »

yeah im having to drive a " stick "

* Handle a stick.

the beer revolu

Growing up in Cork :

Roche's Stores
Dunnes Stores
Smith's Stores
Central Shoe Store
Sound Store
Fairfield Stores

and probably countless more....

..... but yeah, it's a contemporary Americanism!

theoneeyedman

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Not hugely important in the greater scheme of things, but all sorts of lobbyists, representatives, commentators, and presenters in the media over the last few weeks talking about the 'stores' reopening next week... Hardware Stores, Homeware Stores, Clothes Stores, everything except the Food Store really.

WTF??? What happened the humble shop?

Must have been around the same time series became seasons.

biko

Just saw someone call tyres "tires" on boards.

It's seems to be common for people to misspell licence license for some reason, at the same time they never misspell advice advise.

Muahahaha

An Australian friend refers to the coronavirus as 'the rona', they really love an abbreviation those Aussies

riclad

Newspapers have their own language and style guide
which does not reflect how people speak
I never heard an Irish person say store. They say are you going to the shop. Store is the American
word for shop. Like petrol is gas in America
I think Rona is used all over social media not just in
Australia. Some simple words have an English and an American spelling which is slightly different

Harry Palmr

/\ gas is petrol in America!

biko wrote: »

Just saw someone call tyres "tires" on boards.

It's seems to be common for people to misspell licence license for some reason, at the same time they never misspell advice advise.

A lot of people just have English (US) as the default spell checker in their browser I expect.

licence and license have the same word meaning, whereas advice and advise do not so the software reads the context and corrects often.

Wanderer19

endacl wrote: »

BUNS

:mad:

Buns dont have icing/buttercream, fairy cakes do.

Cupcakes have replaced fairy cakes.

Muffins have replaced buns.

JDMC2

My kids wait in line to see a movie at the cinema.

I had much better craic queueing for the pictures where we could cuggle in the jumbo seats

No more babies from the pictures :rolleyes: Their loss

Wanderer19

biko wrote: »

Just saw someone call tyres "tires" on boards.

It's seems to be common for people to misspell licence license for some reason, at the same time they never misspell advice advise.

Maybe they're just bad at spelling?

Yester

riclad wrote: »

petrol is gas in America

So, what do they call gas in America?

Dank Janniels

Stores, cupcakes, mooovies.
Shag off Yank!!

whisky_galore

Yester wrote: »

So, what do they call gas in America?

Butane or propane, or whatever.

byronbay2

It all started years ago (70s, I presume) with Sesame Street. Before that, everyone referred to their offspring as children; there was no such word in Ireland as "kids" except when referring to young goats. Slowly, inexorably (like how the ugly American grey squirrel supplanted the beautiful indigenous red) children became kids and now it has come to the stage where people consider you a snob if you use the word child rather than kid.