single word requests - A park seat or a car seat has two main parts ...
...A car seat or a park seat has two main parts. One part is the back, against which one leans their back. What is the name of the part that one actually sits on (puts their buttocks on it)? For a chair...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/200199/a-park-seat-or-a-car-seat-has-two-main-parts-one-part-is-the-back-what-is-the
Word to call a person that works in a store
...5 In the UK we have shop assistant but there are more specific terms like checkout girl and the possibly pejorative shelf-stacker, as well as the general shopworker, retail worker and so on. The best word to use probably depends on what your person actually does....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/63423/word-to-call-a-person-that-works-in-a-store
What is a small tent kind of shop on the side of the road called?
...The phrase market cart brings up some similar images in eBay. I think I?ve also seen this kind of stand called a "barrow", too. Collins list the following for "barrow": chiefly Brit a handcart, typically having two wheels and a canvas roof, used esp by street vendors Which neatly describes your images in a British fashion and gives "handcart" as an alternative....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/483143/what-is-a-small-tent-kind-of-shop-on-the-side-of-the-road-called
"mid" without a following hyphen in these words? [closed]
...To judge from The Oxford Guide to Style (2003), however, preferences in the UK lean much more toward retaining hyphens with at least some prefixes. That guide has a special subsection on mid-:...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/222380/mid-without-a-following-hyphen-in-these-words
single word requests - What do we call people who stand in the street ...
...Over the years markets halls have reduced and stalls are more commonly found in the street unless at a historic weekly market. They are sometimes manned by an employee or franchise holder, but collectively holder is used when referring to a non specific group of people who hold a fixed pitch with a permanent licence....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/473420/what-do-we-call-people-who-stand-in-the-street-food-shops-selling-their-stuffs
grammaticality - How does one mention ?first class honors? and GPA ...
...In a CV/resume, something like "University of Surrey, UK: BSc (Hons) Civil Engineering, 1987." The date, degree and institution might appear in a different order depending on style within the CV. Definitely no mention of honours grade or GPA, though....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/133129/how-does-one-mention-first-class-honors-and-gpa-correctly-on-a-r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
Seemingly quintessentially British non-medical meaning for "surgery ...
...The term surgery has been adopted outside clinical contexts by analogy in meaning: (Britain) Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, similar to a doctor's surgery. Our MP will be holding a surgery in the village hall on Tuesday. ' Surgery (politics): A political surgery (in British politics) or clinic is a series of one-to-one meetings that a Member ......
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/324991/seemingly-quintessentially-british-non-medical-meaning-for-surgery
What does "bespoke" mean in this context? - English Language & Usage ...
...You'd probably find the words "Bespoke Tailors" displayed somewhere outside most of the many businesses on Savile Row, home of up-market made-to-measure suits in London. I don't personally know about US usage, but NGram figures suggest Bespoke Tailor gets 10x more hits in UK than US, so I guess it's not a well-known term there....
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/31194/what-does-bespoke-mean-in-this-context
word usage - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
...And also for example would you call shop or store or market small Tescos in the UK ? And also for example would you call shop or store or market big ones like Sainsbury's in the UK / Walmart in the US ?...
https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/59187/shop-vs-store-classification
vocabulary - What terms are there in the English Language for an ...
...Also consider the terms flea market and swap meet for those held in a more public venue, where the sale is often not a permanent fixture and there are multiple vendors. A store front offering similar goods would more likely be called a thrift store, especially if goods are donated for charitable purposes. (all applying to US customary usage.)...
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/631811/what-terms-are-there-in-the-english-language-for-an-outdoor-sale-where-assorted