Chemist or Pharmacy?

fxotoole

Anyone else use the word chemist to describe a pharmacy? I know my dad always uses the word chemist, which leads me to believe it’s an older generational thing. Or is it a word that found its way into the Hiberno-English vernacular from somewhere else?

spurious

We always called it the chemist.

Conservatory

I think it’s only been pharmacy since people started drinking lattes

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Dude! Drugstores is where it's at, y'all!

(Although failed to deliver what it promised ... )

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The use of the word chemists for a pharmacy has it's origins in Britain in the 1700. Pharmacy is technically more accurate but the terms are fully interchangeable. Drug Store is starting to catch on now though.

Trigger Happy

It was 'Apothecary' in our house. I blame the classical education.

Donald Trump

Jimmy the local dealer

biko

kneemos

Drug store is one of those typically American descriptive name they give to everything.
Like weed whacker,drive in takeaway or mass shooting.

Day Lewin

Chemist, of course. Popular use in Ireland, widespread, the commonest word by far for that kind of shop.

Pharmacy used to be only used in hospitals...(that, or "dispensary" another lovely old word.)

No need to go copying the neighbours in Europe, or imitating things seen on television or the movies. We can keep our vernacular usage, it is expressive and historically valid.

dxhound2005

I don't know whether to consult a dictionary or a lexicon. Or perhaps a thesaurus.

OldMrBrennan83

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

We had rural dispensaries in the 40s and 50s. They differed from a Chemists', who often made up their own pills, lotions and such, in that they only dispensed medicines.

Donald Trump

Alena Immense Leg wrote: »

We had rural dispensaries in the 40s and 50s. They differed from a Chemists', who often made up their own pills, lotions and such, in that they only dispensed medicines.

Oh those crazy boggers and their crazy quaint ways :pac:

fxotoole

Donald Trump wrote: »

Oh those crazy boggers and their crazy ways :pac:

Would you call a chemist a drugstore, Don?

Hector Bellend

I call him the "c*nt down the road".

Is this wrong

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

fxotoole wrote: »

Would you call a chemist a drugstore, Don?

He'd have his own chemical weapons facility.

Donald Trump

fxotoole wrote: »

Would you call a chemist a drugstore, Don?

I'd just call Dr. Ronny

Donald Trump

Hector Bellend wrote: »

I call him the "c*nt down the road".

Is this wrong

Yeah


He's the cunt up the road

I would interchange the words chemist and pharmacy, but would use Chemist much more often.

Thank god I haven't heard anyone saying Drug Store in real life.

K.Flyer

Farmacia.

badtoro

Usually call the shop the Chemists. Pharmacy or Pharmacist the odd time, usually if dealing with health professionals, go figure.

Beasty

biko wrote: »

Is this the Drugstore?
Is it just Apocathery?
Caught in the Chemists
No escape from the Pharmacy
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see.....

jackboy

Pharmacy. Chemists stopped working in these shops years ago

_Dara_

Chemist.

Sonetimes I say pharmacy but mostly I say chemist.

rainbowtrout

Trigger Happy wrote: »

It was 'Apothecary' in our house. I blame the classical education.

Still is in Irish - poitigéir.

It's apotheke in German and similiar in other European languages.

r93kaey5p2izun

I thought this was going to be a last minute CAO change of mind thread.

I always call it the chemist but refer to the person as the pharmacist. Never hear anyone say pharmacy.

_Dara_

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Still is in Irish - poitigéir.

It's apotheke in German and similiar in other European languages.

I love the Irish word - and I usually am indifferent to Irish. Poitigéir is very satisfying to say.

seachto7

“Mom” “store”

It’s mum and shop.

Limmys show does a good sketch about this

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

_Dara_ wrote: »

I love the Irish word - and I usually am indifferent to Irish. Poitigéir is very satisfying to say.

I thought that was a theorem?

Fred Swanson

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GalwayGrrrrrl

I’m a pharmacist and my degree is in pharmaceutical chemistry (bachelor of pharmacy). All pharmacists are chemists but not all chemists are pharmacists (ie a degree in chemistry does not allow you to be in charge of a pharmacy/chemist shop).

Conservatory

xfactorfan23 wrote: »

I’m a pharmacist and my degree is in pharmaceutical chemistry (bachelor of pharmacy). All pharmacists are chemists but not all chemists are pharmacists (ie a degree in chemistry does not allow you to be in charge of a pharmacy/chemist shop).

So are you saying you are better than them

Conservatory

Conservatory wrote: »

So are you saying you are better than them

A chemist is like a pharmacists laborer?

jackboy

xfactorfan23 wrote: »

All pharmacists are chemists

Are you sure? I've never heard of a pharmacist claiming to be a chemist. Just like a chemical engineer is also not a chemist.

RhubarbCrumble

I call the physical place the chemist but the person working there the pharmacist.
When I was a kid though the man who owned the local 'that business' was HIMSELF known as Jimmy the chemist'.

freshpopcorn

I've only ever really heard it be called the Chemist. I can't even think of a time when somebody(I know) said they needed to go to the Pharmacy.

GalwayGrrrrrl

Conservatory wrote: »

xfactorfan23 wrote: »

I’m a pharmacist and my degree is in pharmaceutical chemistry (bachelor of pharmacy). All pharmacists are chemists but not all chemists are pharmacists (ie a degree in chemistry does not allow you to be in charge of a pharmacy/chemist shop).

So are you saying you are better than them

Not better, just different qualifications. As a pharmacist with 20 years experience I’d be pretty hopeless in a lab.

Conservatory

xfactorfan23 wrote: »

Not better, just different qualifications. As a pharmacist with 20 years experience I’d be pretty hopeless in a lab.

I’m sure you could make a tablet for that. A chemist would need you to tell them how to make it.

Stigura

" Boots the Chemist™ " sort of says it, for me.

Growing up, the shop was always the 'Chemists Shop' and, I guess, the person behind the counter would have been " The Chemist ". I don't think people knew any better.

For about the last twenty years though I've referred to the person as The Pharmacist, out of deep respect for their training and knowledge.

Not actually sure what I'd call the shop now. I don't talk to anyone, any more, so don't get to use such a reference!

Irish Guitarist

Anyone in Ireland that calls it a pharmacist has most likely been influenced by Americans talking online in the same way that people on the television forum talk about the new season of a show.

Fred Swanson

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BBDBB

If symptoms persist...


you're doing it wrong

seachto7

seachto7 wrote: »

“Mom” “store”

It’s mum and shop.

No.

Day Lewin

As far as I know, in the USA a Drugstore is not a chemist shop: it sounds like one, but really it's a kind of corner shop, I think.

They call a chemist shop a Pharmacy, and a drugstore is something else again. And probably not a place for storing drugs!

Akrasia

BBDBB wrote: »

If symptoms persist...


you're doing it wrong

If symptoms persist, stop banging that person who clearly has an uncontrolled sexually transmitted infection

Donald Trump

Akrasia wrote: »

If symptoms persist, stop banging that person who clearly has an uncontrolled sexually transmitted infection

A holes a goal.




And beggars can't be choosers

seachto7

Omackeral wrote: »

No.

Mam

mohawk

Day Lewin wrote: »

As far as I know, in the USA a Drugstore is not a chemist shop: it sounds like one, but really it's a kind of corner shop, I think.

They call a chemist shop a Pharmacy, and a drugstore is something else again. And probably not a place for storing drugs!

''Tis been a few years since I was stateside but they didn't have pharmacys they had drugstores. I never saw or heard the word pharmacy. The US is a big place though so maybe they use the word in the parts I haven't been to. The drugstores sold alcohol though which I thought was bizarre.

Donald Trump

mohawk wrote: »

''Tis been a few years since I was stateside but they didn't have pharmacys they had drugstores. I never saw or heard the word pharmacy. The US is a big place though so maybe they use the word in the parts I haven't been to. The drugstores sold alcohol though which I thought was bizarre.

The larger chain shops tend to have pharmacies down the back. A separate section behind a counter where they'll fill a prescription. And it's usually labelled as such

Outlaw Pete

Always thought it was strange as a kid when I watched It's A Wonderful Life that George called the pharmacist a druggist, made me think he was a wrongun.