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Chemist or Pharmacy?

  • 01-07-2018 12:04pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,344 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    We always called it the chemist.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


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

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

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,158 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Jimmy the local dealer


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    2d7pwt.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,302 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,661 ✭✭✭fxotoole


    Oh those crazy boggers and their crazy ways :pac:

    Would you call a chemist a drugstore, Don?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


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

    Is this wrong


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    fxotoole wrote: »
    Would you call a chemist a drugstore, Don?

    He'd have his own chemical weapons facility.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    fxotoole wrote: »
    Would you call a chemist a drugstore, Don?




    I'd just call Dr. Ronny


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


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

    Is this wrong




    Yeah


    He's the cunt up the road


  • Posts: 14,266 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Farmacia.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭badtoro


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


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,456 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    biko wrote: »
    2d7pwt.jpg
    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.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Pharmacy. Chemists stopped working in these shops years ago


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    Chemist.

    Sonetimes I say pharmacy but mostly I say chemist.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,404 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭_Dara_


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    “Mom” “store”

    It’s mum and shop.

    Limmys show does a good sketch about this


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭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?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭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).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    So are you saying you are better than them

    A chemist is like a pharmacists laborer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,955 ✭✭✭jackboy


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭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'.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,508 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭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).

    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭Conservatory


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭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! :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    If symptoms persist...


    you're doing it wrong


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    seachto7 wrote: »
    “Mom” “store”

    It’s mum and shop.

    No.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,088 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    Omackeral wrote: »
    No.

    Mam


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭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.


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