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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuzzie View Post
    No. You keep things in a store for later use. You might however buy something in a shop rather than sell there.

    My workshop is more store than shop.
    From the OED

    "store - a large shop where goods are sold"

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    I use both the terms "shed" and "workshop," but differ from the Americans in that I never use the term "shop made." There I tend to use "home made," but in reality I don't like the phrase: Even less do I like the American phrase, but that is more to do with my own prejudice against adopting Americanised English. George Bernard Shaw had a go at introducing phonetic spelling, but it didn't catch on with the Poms. The Americans however did run with this, ( I am not sure that they credited Mr Shaw with this approach) but they were already experiencing grammatic issues and it was a solution that saw an immediate improvement in their spelling test results.



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    I think a workshop is a place equipped to do work, generally manual. It may be housed in a shed or another place. So I can be either in my workshop or in my shed, same thing. The possessive distinguishes it from THE shed which houses other things.

    The American abbreviation "shop" hasn't crept into the vernacular...yet.

    mick

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    Shed always was always will be, in my opinion, I had a long spirited discussion the other night with a fellow convincing him there is no such joint as a Dado joint.

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    Default shed or shop

    Neither,
    I prefer a place i go to worship the gods of tools, and prey for guidance and acceptance for my twisted and deprived soul,

    Den of iniquity.

    Cheers Matt.

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    Interesting to see the BBC brit show calls it a "repairshop"

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    In fairness, Paul, there was a reasonable run of attempts at modernisation in Australia. That is why the Labor party is spelt that way (not Labour).

    As with most things in language, it all gets quite murky when you start digging. Many "Americanisms" are in fact traditions that carried across from England, but where American left things the way they were and England modernised. What we come to know as "Americanisations" are in fact just Americans leaving language adopted from England in place.

    An example is "attorney" to refer to what would be a solicitor in Australia or England. It used to be "attorney" in England until the late 19th century, but then England unified the profession into "solicitor". The American word has a much longer history. There are numerous other examples I have noticed over the years.

    For that reason I am much more forgiving of "Americanisms" at a general level - for all you know it was the term used for centuries until poms changed it relatively recently.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    I use both the terms "shed" and "workshop," but differ from the Americans in that I never use the term "shop made." There I tend to use "home made," but in reality I don't like the phrase: Even less do I like the American phrase, but that is more to do with my own prejudice against adopting Americanised English. George Bernard Shaw had a go at introducing phonetic spelling, but it didn't catch on with the Poms. The Americans however did run with this, ( I am not sure that they credited Mr Shaw with this approach) but they were already experiencing grammatic issues and it was a solution that saw an immediate improvement in their spelling test results.



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