Vita nova wrote: » When I was young it was the chemist's. Not like today's pharmacies all clean and white, the chemist's was small and dark with shelves full of glass bottles with glass stoppers labelled iodine, bromide, glycerine etc., and a smaller range of packaged medicines. There was also a guy called Al who worked in the back turning lead into gold.
Akrasia wrote: » He had a working particle accelerator? Awesome!
fxotoole wrote: » 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?
TomOnBoard wrote: » chemist = person; pharmacy = place. pharmacist = chemist who works in a pharmacy mixing chemicals to make pharmaceuticals or dispensing premixed pharmaceuticals
ohnonotgmail wrote: » No the actual shop itself was called the chemists when i was a lad.
TomOnBoard wrote: » It was called the chemists in the same way as the meatsellers was called the victuallers or the food store was called the grocers.
TomOnBoard wrote: » You'd have seen the sign on the shop painted as Roches Chemists (see attached photo from 1964 in O'Connell St) or Kellys Grocers etc. So the shop would be colloquially known by the name of profession practiced by the owners.
