"Food shopping" and other bizarre phrases

[Anonymous]

Courtesy of RHOBH: "This is my best friend since I'm seven years old."

That's the worst grammar ever!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Courtesy of RHOBH: "This is my best friend since I'm seven years old."

That's the worst grammar ever!

Hope you correct them on the spot.

[Anonymous]

I posted upthread about my 74 year old mother who says food shopping. She also has supper, after she makes it with the food she bought while food shopping.

Grocery shopping seems more common around here though.

[Anonymous]

I go food shopping and buy pop there.

[Anonymous]

They are from New England. They probably have supper and use bubblers too.

I am from New England...what do you mean by bubbler? I think what I call a bubbler is probably not what you're talking about.

A water fountain. A bubblah! (MA born and raised). How do you not know what a bubbler is if you're from New England?

I am from New England and have never heard of a bubbler. Not everything in Boston is a New England thing. Some of it is just Boston.

Must finish cleaning up supper now.

[Anonymous]

I don't like saying "food shopping" either. My Texan friend used to say "Let's go to the beer store" instead of "liquor store" and that annoyed me too.

I hate when people say "Recommend me a _______" (like "Recommend me a purse," or whatever. It sounds so uneducated. It's "Recommend TO me a purse."

[Anonymous]

The term bubbler is a genericized trademark used in some regional dialects of the United States and in Australia.[6] A survey of US dialects undertaken between 2002 and 2004 found the word bubbler commonly used in southern and eastern Wisconsin and in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The phrase drinking fountain was common in the rest of the inland north and in the west, while water fountain dominated other parts of the country.[7]

The term bubbler is sometimes used in the Portland, Oregon region where in the late 1800s former Wisconsin resident Simon Benson installed 20 fountains, which are now known in the Portland area as "Benson Bubbler".[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_fountain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like saying "food shopping" either. My Texan friend used to say "Let's go to the beer store" instead of "liquor store" and that annoyed me too.

I hate when people say "Recommend me a _______" (like "Recommend me a purse," or whatever. It sounds so uneducated. It's "Recommend TO me a purse."

If you said, "Recommend to me a purse," I would assume that American English was not your first language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Here's another one:
A picture "made" instead of "taken"-
"Have you had your picture made yet?" or "I went to a great photographer to have my picture made"
It sounds so awkward!



I've never heard someone say that ever.



That sounds like old English - back to the times where people sat for paintings.

well, a slightly different context, but I write about art and particularly photography frequently, and the term 'made' in reference to the production of photographs is often preferred over "taken," since the former emphasizes the artist's creative intention, while the later emphasizes the purely mechanical aspects of the medium.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like saying "food shopping" either. My Texan friend used to say "Let's go to the beer store" instead of "liquor store" and that annoyed me too.

I hate when people say "Recommend me a _______" (like "Recommend me a purse," or whatever. It sounds so uneducated. It's "Recommend TO me a purse."

If you said, "Recommend to me a purse," I would assume that American English was not your first language.

If you said, "Recommend me a purse," I would assume that English was your first language, but that you were a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like saying "food shopping" either. My Texan friend used to say "Let's go to the beer store" instead of "liquor store" and that annoyed me too.

I hate when people say "Recommend me a _______" (like "Recommend me a purse," or whatever. It sounds so uneducated. It's "Recommend TO me a purse."

If you said, "Recommend to me a purse," I would assume that American English was not your first language.

If you said, "Recommend me a purse," I would assume that English was your first language, but that you were a moron.

Do you also say, "Tell to me a story"? Or, "Buy for me a hot dog"?

Also, why are you responding with an insult?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like saying "food shopping" either. My Texan friend used to say "Let's go to the beer store" instead of "liquor store" and that annoyed me too.

I hate when people say "Recommend me a _______" (like "Recommend me a purse," or whatever. It sounds so uneducated. It's "Recommend TO me a purse."

If you said, "Recommend to me a purse," I would assume that American English was not your first language.

If you said, "Recommend me a purse," I would assume that English was your first language, but that you were a moron.

Do you also say, "Tell to me a story"? Or, "Buy for me a hot dog"?

Also, why are you responding with an insult?

Do you say "She recommended a purse me?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't even imagine noticing such a thing, much less getting mad about it.

+100

WHO CARES

Apparently, you do. Here you are, commenting on a subject you "don't care about".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't like saying "food shopping" either. My Texan friend used to say "Let's go to the beer store" instead of "liquor store" and that annoyed me too.

I hate when people say "Recommend me a _______" (like "Recommend me a purse," or whatever. It sounds so uneducated. It's "Recommend TO me a purse."

If you said, "Recommend to me a purse," I would assume that American English was not your first language.

If you said, "Recommend me a purse," I would assume that English was your first language, but that you were a moron.

Do you also say, "Tell to me a story"? Or, "Buy for me a hot dog"?

Also, why are you responding with an insult?

You could use "recommend me" when YOU are the object. Like "Recommend me for that job."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do some people say "food shopping" instead of just grocery shopping? It sounds so simple-minded, like something a child would say. Major pet peeve. Any others?

They are from New England. They probably have supper and use bubblers too.

Actually, I have a friend from Richmond who says, "food shopping". She sounds like a silly little girl every time she says it.