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When did shops become stores??

  • 15-05-2020 08:46PM
    #1
    theoneeyedman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,925 ✭✭✭


    Not hugely important in the greater scheme of things, but all sorts of lobbyists, representatives, commentators, and presenters in the media over the last few weeks talking about the 'stores' reopening next week... Hardware Stores, Homeware Stores, Clothes Stores, everything except the Food Store really.

    WTF??? What happened the humble shop?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yankese is supplanting Hiberno-English.


  • #3
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,991 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Since Dunnes.

    “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” - A. Dumbledore

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #4
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Since Dunnes.
    That was always an outlier.

    OP, you're right. It's a disgrace, and people should be ashamed of themselves!


  • #5
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Hardware stores were always called that.


  • #6
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,327 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    That was always an outlier.

    OP, you're right. It's a disgrace, and people should be ashamed of themselves!

    Roches..

    British Home..


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  • #7
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    That was always an outlier.

    OP, you're right. It's a disgrace, and people should be ashamed of themselves!

    Roches Stores.


  • #8
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,703 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    That was always an outlier.

    OP, you're right. It's a disgrace, and people should be ashamed of themselves!

    Roches Stores.


  • #9
    irishguitarlad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,915 ✭✭✭irishguitarlad


    theoneeyedman wrote: »
    Not hugely important in the greater scheme of things, but all sorts of lobbyists, representatives, commentators, and presenters in the media over the last few weeks talking about the 'stores' reopening next week... Hardware Stores, Homeware Stores, Clothes Stores, everything except the Food Store really.

    WTF??? What happened the humble shop?

    Ireland is becoming mini USA, I suppose it's the disadvantage of sharing the same language.


  • #10
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    When did films become movies? Toilets become bathrooms? Coleslaw become ****ing slaw?


  • #11
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    So long as we don't start having corner stores or bodegas we'll be half grand at the very least.

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  • #12
    ednwireland
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    same time as basil became baysil

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  • #13
    dirkmeister
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    On Crimecall last month a Guard said that a “convenience store” in Dublin was recently robbed.

    F*ck that sh!t, it’s a shop.


  • #14
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Around the same time buns became cupcakes.

    They’re buns.

    Buns.

    Dammit.


  • #15
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    Roches..

    British Home..
    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Roches Stores.
    Roches Stores, started in the so called rebel county? Yeah, right! Michael Collins was the biggest traitor to this country!


    BHS? Yeah, very Irish.

    Ye West Brit-Americans sicken me!!



    Answer me this! An bhfuil cead agam dul go dtí an siopa, más é do thoil é?!?!? :pac:


  • #16
    Gerry T
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    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    When did films become movies? Toilets become bathrooms? Coleslaw become ****ing slaw?

    Movies?? you mean "the pictures"


  • #17
    Giraffe Box
    Closed Accounts Posts: 259 ✭✭Giraffe Box


    Fanny.


  • #18
    phormium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭phormium


    Ah now cupcakes are dressed up buns, a bun is something with a few sultanas in it or some jam and coconut on top. A cupcake should have a much fancier topping altogether with a bit of a buttercream swirl going on at the very least :)


  • #19
    two wheels good
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,955 ✭✭✭two wheels good


    It was around the same time that "people" became "folk" but a while after "proud" became "humble".


  • #20
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    When did films become movies? Toilets become bathrooms? Coleslaw become ****ing slaw?

    Or worse still "rest rooms", I was in Dublin Castle a couple of years ago when an Italian women came up to me and asked if I knew where the toilets were, I glanced around and saw a sign for "rest rooms" and pointed it out to her, she looked puzzled and said that she had never heard the term before. Why did they feel to pander to Americans? Everyone knows what "Toilet" means, even someone with no English. I've even heard Americans going a step further and just using the word "Rooms". I make a point of always asking where the toilets are when I'm in the U.S just to make them uncomfortable


  • #21
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    endacl wrote: »
    Around the same time buns became cupcakes.

    They’re buns.

    Buns.

    Dammit.

    We called them."queen cakes" while I had friends who called them "fairy cakes".


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,290 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It Halle Ed when our island detached from Europe and floated westward ho!


  • #23
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    People worry about the stupidest things with regard to American influence. It's the #russiagatechinadidit nonsense that we need to ignore.

    I bet stores are an old English word. High School for instance is the name that existed before secondary school.


  • #24
    One eyed Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,439 ✭✭✭✭One eyed Jack


    ednwireland wrote: »
    same time as basil became baysil


    The first time I heard it being pronounced ‘erbs was by Darina Allen, same with baysil. Scons, etc, all sorts of weird enunciations.

    jam_mac_jam wrote: »
    When did films become movies? Toilets become bathrooms? Coleslaw become ****ing slaw?


    Let’s just be grateful Washing Closet never caught on.


    (I’ve just searched for the term, WC stands for Water Closet... :o)


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,773 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Funnily enough in the states they use the term shop to describe a warehouse or shed, I.e. what we would call stores.

    Think the term store originated in the states as the shops could only stock long life canned goods during the migration from east to west. Twas before fridges, which was the style at the time.


  • #26
    LeYouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭LeYouth


    Jayz, this thread's on fire with nutters. Haha.


  • #27
    FVP3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭FVP3


    LeYouth wrote: »
    Jayz, this thread's on fire with nutters. Haha.

    Didnt see it up to now but to be fair, it is now that you are here.


  • #28
    LeYouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭LeYouth


    FVP3 wrote: »
    Didnt see it up to now but to be fair, it is now that you are here.

    Hah, well it takes one to know one.


  • #29
    kowloon
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    irishguitarlad wrote: »
    Ireland is becoming mini USA, I suppose it's the disadvantage of sharing the same language.

    In fairness, a lot of their culture was brought over from Ireland, so we're just getting some of that back after it's been mixed up a bit.


  • #30
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,449 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Roches Stores.

    With Demenhams gone could we see Roches back?

    🙈🙉🙊



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  • #31
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,449 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    Gerry T wrote: »
    Movies?? you mean "the pictures"

    They're fillums ffs.

    🙈🙉🙊



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