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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
I work in a grocery store or at a grocery store [duplicate] They are almost interchangeable, but you could convey a subtle difference in meaning If you're trying to describe your job what you do, you'd want to say you work "at" a grocery store Working "in" a grocery store describes the location you work at For example, I work in an office, but I work at a company
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
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
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
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?
phrase origin - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The phrase over the counter is widely used to characterise the drugs that can be legally bought without a physician's prescription, and is so used in the countries in which these drugs are not in f
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
Where did the phrase I dont give a rats ass come from? Apart from a single occurrence in 1953 (see Colin’s answer), Google ngram sees it picking up from 1970, after sporadic use in the 60’s I don't know anything about where it comes from, but it was probably picked up more for how it rolls of the tongue than other reasons