In British English, a building or part of a building where goods are sold is usually called a shop. Are there any shops near here? In American English, this kind of building is usually called a store, and shop is only used to mean a very small store that has just one type of goods.
The nouns shop and store are used somewhat differently in American and British English. In general, Americans use store the way the British use shop — to describe any room or building where people can buy things or pay for a service.
For example you would say department store or convenience store, rather than department shop or convenience shop. However, you can say either grocery store or grocery shop. When the building is named after the tradesperson, you should always use shop e.g. baker's shop, grocer's shop, butcher's shop, chemist's shop.
A ''shop'' means any premises that sell retail goods, often of a single kind such as electrical goods, clothes, groceries, etc. ''Store'' tends to means a larger establishment that is divided into sections and sells several types of goods.
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How do British people spell shop?
The Oxford English Dictionary (paywalled) gives plenty of examples of the spelling “shoppe” from Middle English through the 17th century. But today, in standard English (American or British), the word is spelled “shop” unless you are intentionally going for a quaint or whimsical look.
It seems to be something to do with America being very business centered as in "this is a place for our retailers to store their items to sell", whereas in Britain it would be more "this is a place for our population to shop for things that they need".
United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, terms in common usage include "supermarket" (for larger grocery stores), "corner shop", "convenience shop", or "grocery" (meaning a grocery shop) for smaller stores. "Grocery store", being a North American term, is not used.
It comes from a mix of Old French, German and Old English. Eschoppe from Old French (meaning booth), Schopf from German (meaning porch), and Shippon from Old English (meaning cattle shed). So the first usage of the word can be traced to mean a booth or porch where cattle was bought and sold.
In British English a receipt is a piece of paper that you get in a shop when you buy something, but in American English the more usual term for this is sales slip.
In England, an American corner shop or mini-mart is usually referred to as a "corner shop," a "convenience store," or simply a "shop." These types of stores are typically small and located in urban or suburban areas, and offer a range of products such as snacks, beverages, toiletries, and other household items.
In the U.K., such complexes are considered shopping centres (Commonwealth English: shopping centre), though "shopping center" covers many more sizes and types of centers than the North American "mall".
Tesco's is the possessive of Tesco, not its plural. The correct use of Tesco's would be as “Tesco's fresh fruit is down in price” Tesco is a brand name and as such has no plural.
Yankee is sometimes abbreviated as “Yank.” People from all over the world, including Great Britain, Australia, and South America, use the term to describe Americans. (In Spanish, it's spelled yanqui.) Sometimes, it's a negative description.
A shoe is an item of footwear intended to protect and comfort the human foot. Though the human foot can adapt to varied terrains and climate conditions, it is vulnerable, and shoes provide protection. Form was originally tied to function, but over time, shoes also became fashion items.
“Shop” is a noun that wears several hats. It is a common noun, a countable noun, and a concrete noun. See Oxford Dictionaries for other noun types. Also see Sarah Madden's answer to What type of noun is coal?
The history of grocery begins with a dealer who sold by the gross—that is, in large quantities at discounted retail prices. A grocer in medieval England was a wholesaler, and the name is derived from an Anglo-French word having the same meaning, groser.
In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is often used to mean "supermarket". The supermarket typically has places for fresh meat, fresh produce, dairy, deli items, baked goods, and similar foodstuffs.
From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”).
