It'll probably turn out that stores is what shops are called in Yorkshire or Somerset or somewhere and it doesn't come from Americaor that it was the old word for shops in the 15th century, and Americans just copied us and then we forgot.
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Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:40,
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I'm pretty sure this is the caseYou see a lot of 'village stores' and 'general stores' in little villages
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Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:49,
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There's the Old Camden Stores tooit probably doesn't predate America but it's pretty old
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Fri 12 Aug 2011, 11:51,
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