"Foodstore" (was Re: Eggcorn?)

[Roger Shuy]

on 5/18/05 4:39 PM, FRITZ JUENGLING at juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US
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> I remember Edith complaining to Archie about Gloria not being able to go or do
> 'marketing.'  How much Edith et al. truly represented NY speech, I don't know.
> Fritz
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>>>> pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU 05/18/05 03:04PM >>>
> And groshry.
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> BTW, does anybody still "do the marketing" instead of "going grocery
> shopping"?  I associate this use of "marketing" with my grandmother and her
> sisters, who grew up in Indian Territory/Oklahoma, so I don't know if it
> was regional or generational.  (And it's too far to get to the nearest copy
> of DARE just now.)
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> Peter
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> --On Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:46 PM -0700 FRITZ JUENGLING
> <juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US> wrote:
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>> Yea, gross-ry
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>>>>> wilson.gray at RCN.COM 05/18/05 01:51PM >>>
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>>> foodstore.
>>> Fritz
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>> Re: "pronounced groshery"
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>> Like, there exists another pronunciation? ;-)
>>>
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> Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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DARE says marketing is: Shopping, esp for groceries. Scattered, but esp east
of the Missip R
The instances listed on the map shows that it seems to be more in the north
than south

LANE (1943)  says: marketing differs from other terms in that it usually
refers specifically to the purchasing of food

Roger