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....
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A park seat or a car seat has two main parts. One part is the back ...
...Eg. Clarity; MINI Market-UK.com avoids any reference to a squab Eg. Confusion; Oxford Dictionary Online gives the definition as the padded back of a vehicle seat, then gives three examples referring to the SEAT BOTTOM portion. An internal contradiction! Note: the three examples are recent sentences in the context of modern automoboiles....
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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....
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I'm on the market - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
...From a UK Daily Mail headline: Real Housewives star LuAnn de Lesseps is back on the market after split from boyfriend. From a dating column (addressing Are You Dating the 'Right One'?): If your gut is telling you otherwise, it's time to get out and get back on the market! It's an expression the learner ought to know....
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"Going to go" vs "going to" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
...1) I am going to go watch a game. 2) I am going to a game. 3) I am going to golf. 4) I am going to go golfing. What are the differences and similarities between and among sentences 1......
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"mid" without a following hyphen in these words? [closed]
...[Example:] anti-icing (Without the hyphen, the doubled vowel would make the term hard to recognize.) 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-: 5.10.2 Prefixes and combining forms ......
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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 ?...
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"Definite ninety-nine" - UK English meaning
...I've been browsing through older lyrics of Judas Priest songs, namely Rocka Rolla, which has the following lines in a verse: Barroom fighter Ten pint a nighter Definite ninety-nine ......
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Blanket term for things we often buy at grocery store that are not ...
...I?m looking for a term to cover the kinds of things that we frequently buy at the grocery store but that are not actually groceries. The term needs to include things like: toilet paper, kitchen n......
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What are open street shops called? - English Language Learners Stack ...
...The Google trend may simply be a representation of the growing trend in farmers markets and food halls in the US. US usage of "farmers market" and "food hall" according to Google. It could be that English speaking Europeans have longer practiced the concept of temporary street markets. It's also reasonable that the UK has less roadside stands, since there are less rural areas. In American ......
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