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Re: Re: your home town by Amelia on 2000-03-03 06:46:10

My understanding of hypermarkets is that they have lots of departstore - type items, such as clothing and housewares. Granted that American supermarkets often include a lot of pharmacy, cosmetics, gardening, and variety items, they are still fundamentally food stores, however fancy.

The main difference in terminology would be that you use pounds and we use dollars.

But OK, I'm game. What do you call the little booths where you go to try on clothes? And what is the name of the front counter where you go to have your purchases totalled? And what do you call the printed receipt that you get after you pay?

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Re: Re: Re: your home town by Kid Loco on 2000-03-10 02:20:07  |  Reply to this
	1. Changing Rooms 2. Till/Cash desk. 3. A receipt.

I know why as well, Nanananah! by Kid Loco on 2000-03-10 02:23:50  |  Reply to this

Its obvious. All the modern (post-1700 or so) words for things were formed on opposite sides of the Atlantic (see Sidewalk etc.) and with there being little speedy communication between the two, the local words stuck. Really modern words (post-1950 or so) are universal because they so quickly come into general usage (all the computer and technology words). Man, I love this! Not only stuff that I know about, but what I'll do at uni. too. Re: I know why as well, Nanananah! by Tetra Grammaton on 2000-03-10 21:50:42  |  Reply to this   Except you call them 'mobiles' and we call them 'cell phones'. Re: Re: I know why as well, Nanananah! by Amelia on 2000-03-11 05:51:44  |  Reply to this   Well I actually, I have been trying to move back to calling them "mobile phones" here, too, since the good ones are digital. Of course, the overarching name for the communications technology is "wireless", which I always thought of as a quaint English term for "radio". 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