When did shops become stores??

These seem to be creeping into everyday speech here:

Sidewalk.
Train Station.
Referring to Autumn as "Fall".
Eaterie.
Sick, as in "very good", not "ill".

Most corporate bullsh1t speak; reaching out, going forward, touch base, deliverables ...

Whenever I ask for a coffee to take away I'm given a funny look and asked "do you mean to go"?

Blueshoe wrote: »

Your transmission is probably shot.

Maybe you got a bad fill of gas?

ednwireland wrote: »

same time as basil became baysil

Is that Fawlty or the erb.

A couple of things that drive me mad:

I always thought it was “data” (da-ta), now everyone says “day-ta”.
This must be Americanised surely? But so many people say it now I’m questioning whether I was right in the first place?

Another one I always said is “every second day”. Thought there was no other way of saying it. Now I hear “every other day”. How the hell does that mean every second day? Every other day surely should mean all the other days except the one you’re talking about. Was this always around? I’ve only heard it in the last few years and it’s rampant now!

Coming down the stairs is being replaced by “the stairwell”!

johndaman66 wrote: »

And Pharmacy is another one.

They're chemists FFS

Career has been called Pharmacist in Ireland for centuries, Chemist is more British.

Americans call them Drug Stores anyway.

Madelynn Plump Cape wrote: »

Since I moved to Limerick from the Southside of Dublin twelve years ago, I find that people often think I'm from the US or England. "Really?" they say, "- oh sorry." "No no," I reply, "I take it as a compliment."

Why?

whisky_galore wrote: »

These seem to be creeping into everyday speech here:

Sidewalk.
Train Station.
Referring to Autumn as "Fall".
Eaterie.
Sick, as in "very good", not "ill".

Most corporate bullsh1t speak; reaching out, going forward, touch base, deliverables ...

Train station as opposed to railway station? That just seems to be a logical alternative.

FVP3 wrote: »

Pavement is British english. A footpath is anything that can be used by pedestrians, not necessarily the side of a road.

I guess most of our words are from British English as opposed to American English. I will get very annoyed if Crisps come under threat from Chips!

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Always called the chemist shop the chemist.
I'm off to the chemist for a bottle of TCP...

Then within maybe the last twelve, fifteen, twenty years? people have started calling the chemist shop the pharmacy, which is probably correct, but it is a change from the old name here in Ireland.

There may be some regional stuff here - e.g. Cork often seems to use English terms for things for some reason; but considering they *still* call them Chemists in the UK - Boots was even called "Boots the Chemist" until recently - its not like there's been a change to some other countries naming

The profession has always been Pharmacist in Ireland; the regulator is the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland.

An older term used in Ireland was Druggist, if you really insist on using old Irish names!

whisky_galore wrote: »

Sidewalk.
Train Station.
Referring to Autumn as "Fall".
Eaterie.
Sick, as in "very good", not "ill".

I have never heard anyone using Sidewalk; Train Station is what they are actually called in Northern Ireland; I have never heard anyone using Fall; Eatery is usually used as a pisstake and that meaning of Sick is more than a bit dated now.

I think store/shop may be somewhat specific to the product. Thinking of what I'd use as defaults myself:

Record store (shop sounds totally wrong here)
Bookshop (store is jarringly American here)
Clothes shop (store is still American here)
Hardware store (shop can work here)

With there being no universal standard

This excludes the various things that you add neither to (butchers, greengrocers) or end in -y (bakery, haberdashery if you're ancient)

Mad_maxx wrote: »

yeah im having to drive a " stick "

* Handle a stick.