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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
- pronunciation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Shoppe' Those who know the history may be annoyed when they hear such names pronounced with a j , but then they should also be annoyed with the spelling itself, for which there is, of course, no reason other than whimsy (This answer is an elaboration of the point that was already made by Ms Bunting in the comments below the question )
- Catalogue versus catalog - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What is the difference between catalogue and catalog? I cannot really decide which one to use for a product catalogue for a shop
- meaning - What does the extra e mean in some names? - English . . .
Many times, I saw an "e" on some names For example: blackthorne Is this only for decoration, or is the extra "e" from old english? Or maybe spelling for certain cultures?
- When do I use æ? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It is an ancient grapheme sometimes used in literary historical contexts I don’t think you will need to use it in current common language Æ (minuscule: æ) is a grapheme named æsc or ash,*** formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae In English æ is often eschewed in favour of the digraph ae Usage experts often consider that incorrect
- etymology - Shop vs Store: the verb usage - English Language . . .
In this answer I see explained the fact that Americans (and other English speakers who have accepted some American usage) use the noun "store" in many situations where other English speakers would
- 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
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