I caught myself pronouncing the "c" in "grocery" as an "sh" sound.
Is this commonplace/accepted, or is it perhaps geographic?
Does this occur with "c" in other words?
As background, I was raised...
6 Grocery shop is a common collocation in which shop is used in the verb sense and grocery is a colloquially back-formed singular of the object of shopping: groceries (groceries being what one purchases at a grocery).
The long form would be We used to shop for groceries together.
Is it common to use “grocery” as a verb?
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I am from Minnesota and have always pronounced GROCERY as GROSH-RY.
I teach grammar and pronunciation online, and I recently encountered much controversy regarding what is the correct or incorrect
As to the first part of your question—about cashiers—Merriam-Webster gives as its definition 3c of clerk “one who works at a sales or service counter,” and it provides the usage example a grocery clerk.
A store selling foodstuffs and various household supplies.
Also called grocery store.
groceries Commodities sold by a grocer.
Online Oxford Dictionary (groceries) Items of food sold in a grocery or supermarket.
So, 3 out of 4 suggest the term can be used for non-food items bought at a grocery store and only one limits the word to foodstuff alone.
Blanket term for things we often buy at grocery store that are not ...
F on a grocery receipt generally refers to whether or not it was a food item.
Food items are not usually taxable, whereas other types of items, such as general merchandise, are.
