- 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
- Best Before says 11 MA 23; is it May or March?
I bought a bottle of juice today, and the "Best Before" date it's "11 MA 23" I always see "MA" as for March, but the store staff said that was May What is your opinion?
- 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
- A list with only one item - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It may be grammatically correct, or correct in certain casual documents such as a grocery list (I am unaware of any grocery-list police), but is not a best or even good practice in more formal documents (anything involving an outline, for instance)—with one exception, discussed below
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