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  • What are the differences between shop, shoppe, and store?
    Shoppe is an archaic spelling of shop and is used only in proper names of places wanting to sound quaint and old-fashioned The Pop Shoppe and The Medicine Shoppe are a couple canadian examples
  • orthography - Was the “Ye Olde Shoppe” ever used or is it just an . . .
    The MED entry for shop (pe includes the spelling shoppe as a variant header form Similarly, the entry for old (e includes the spelling olde as a standard variant, among an astonishing variety of spellings Both words have the desired meanings — old "3 (a) Of things: long in existence or in use"; shop "A room or building used as a place of business by a victualer, craftsman, etc " Thus
  • Word to call a person that works in a store
    I seem to always have a trouble with this one; what do you call a person that works in a store? A clerk? A sales person? Neither of these sound right Saying "person that works in the store" doesn'
  • Why was the th combination chosen for the th sound?
    Given that the two "th" sounds don't actually sound like a combination of "t" and "h" why was that particular combination selected or become adopted by the majority ?
  • What happened to the “‑est” and “‑eth” verb suffixes in English?
    What happened to them, and how were they once used? Straining my mind to sound archaic, I came up with the following: Dost thou thinkest thou can escape thy sins? and Bringeth me mine armor and
  • Which is the correct spelling: “fairy” or “faerie”?
    As others have noted, fairy is the standard modern spelling, and faerie is a pseudo-archaism However, in some contexts there is now a semantic distinction between the two spellings! In particular, fairy tales and the associated idea of fairies typically refer to the genre of folk stories printed by the Brothers Grimm, then sweetened and popularized for modern audiences by Disney et al Faerie
  • What are the differences between these words: varying, varied, various . . .
    For the record, you can no more have differences "among" words than the eye of a daisy can ever be "among" its petals These always have to be "between", just like choosing between several candidates, never "among" them
  • What are the differences between a proverb, adage, aphorism, epigram . . .
    Used casually, they are all synonyms Used specifically, they are closely related with slight differences and occasional overlapping meanings This is my simplified understanding of these related terms from the definition of Saying from Wikipedia Saying: Short, memorable words Aphorism: Short, memorable words of wisdom Adage: Short, memorable words of wisdom that are well-known Proverb: Short


















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