05-09-2018, 02:42 PM
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SOPHIE FOREVER
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: East of the Southern North American West
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Seriously? First of all, we don't use the word "liquor". It's "spirits" for anything like vodka, gin, whiskey etc. We do use "liqueur", but that's another thing. Also, we don't use store, but shop. So it would be a spirit shop, which might just sound, hmmm, weird. I reckon it's also to do with licencing laws, so that you can sell beer after hours or before the pubs open. Hell if I know: I don't really drink. But there are off-licences all over here and I assume UK too.
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There are all kinds of licenses in America, so off-license sounds weird to us. Just call it a Local Alcohol Distribution Center like a normal person.
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Point of fact, restaurants we call restaurants, smaller ones cafes, the Brits sometimes call them "caffs" (you probably say diner) and then there are the Italian Bistros, which, oddly, we call bistros.
Every day I die a little more inside.
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So what do you call pubs and why do you need to distinguish them from stores?
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