"package store"
Natalie Maynor
maynor at CS.MSSTATE.EDU
Fri Sep 1 18:25:48 UTC 2000
Larry Horn wrote:
> Have we established this? I thought previous posters who grew up
> with "package store" all acknowledged that they ALSO were familiar
> with "liquor store", whether or not they thought of the two as
> interchangeable.
I think it was many years after I had heard/used "package store"
that I first heard anybody call it a "liquor store." Although
both terms are common now, the latter hasn't always been. I agree
that generation is probably a factor. I started to mention that
in my first response on the subject. I don't think I've ever heard
an elderly person say "liquor store."
--Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)
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