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# This is great, I like it and have clicked it, BUT
I have found it particularly noticable over this week that increasingly the meeja is referring to 'stores' and not 'shops'.

This strikes me as another example of creeping Coca-Colonisation, which has been going on for the past 50 years or so.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:29, archived)
# oooh Coca-Colonisation
not heard that phrase before

I'm going to use it this weekend at a posh dinner party
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:31, archived)
# It'll probably turn out that stores is what shops are called in Yorkshire or Somerset or somewhere and it doesn't come from America
or that it was the old word for shops in the 15th century, and Americans just copied us and then we forgot.
*Takes another bite of coca-colon*
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:40, archived)
# I'm pretty sure this is the case
You see a lot of 'village stores' and 'general stores' in little villages
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:49, archived)
# There's the Old Camden Stores too
it probably doesn't predate America but it's pretty old
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:51, archived)
# Pall Shopping Centre?
(I helped save b3ta! drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:48, archived)
# I took the rhyming option.
Made you this, by way of apology:
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:55, archived)