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Mind your language

Dot Wordsworth: How online shopping is changing English

The fight to the death between ‘shop’ and ‘store’

11 January 2014

9:00 AM

11 January 2014

9:00 AM

How do you play the lottery? The National Lottery website has a handy guide. Step No. 1 is: ‘Go into a store.’ But in my experience, lottery tickets are sold mostly in shops, along with confectionery and tobacco. You can, it is true, get them in Sainsbury’s, but I wouldn’t call that a store either, but a supermarket.

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