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Chemist or Pharmacy?

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  • #62
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    From the late, great Mark E Smith...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl34oJEoO7s


  • #63
    Vita nova
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    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.


  • #64
    MikeyTaylor
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    Drugstore.


  • #65
    Akrasia
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    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.
    He had a working particle accelerator?

    Awesome!

    Ban billionaires



  • #66
    Billy86
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    Both work fine.

    The weird one is that many Americans I've known assume 'chemist' as 'breaking bad style illegal drug producer' but never see anything odd about them calling it a f*cking DRUG STORE!


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  • #67
    Rhyme
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    The pharmacist is in the chemist.

    Phwoar.


  • #68
    fxotoole
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    He had a working particle accelerator?

    Awesome!

    I think he was an alchemist, rather than a chemist.


  • #69
    TomOnBoard
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    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?

    chemist = person; pharmacy = place.
    pharmacist = chemist who works in a pharmacy mixing chemicals to make pharmaceuticals or dispensing premixed pharmaceuticals


  • #70
    ohnonotgmail
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    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    chemist = person; pharmacy = place.
    pharmacist = chemist who works in a pharmacy mixing chemicals to make pharmaceuticals or dispensing premixed pharmaceuticals


    No the actual shop itself was called the chemists when i was a lad.


  • #71
    TomOnBoard
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    No the actual shop itself was called the chemists when i was a lad.

    It was called the chemists in the same way as the meatsellers was called the victuallers or the food store was called the grocers.

    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.


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  • #72
    ohnonotgmail
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    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.


    as in that is what they were actually called.


    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.




    I'm not quite as old as that photo but i do remember that shop as a kid. Everything you said has just backed up the point that fxotoole said earlier.


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