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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
- 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
- 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
- terminology - What is the difference between log in, sign in; register . . .
register, sign up These are synonyms, but they both refer more broadly to providing information in order to receive some service or to be placed on some list For instance, you might sign up or register for a loyalty program at your grocery store You could even sign up to join the military
- 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
- A single word for regularly visited place
The local grocery store is among Joe's regularly visited places However, I was wondering whether a single word (noun or adjective) or a better expression to convey this idea exists
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