more back-formed shopping

[Neal Whitman]

Suggestion isn't enough for these backformations, since the question is
whether speakers have actually taken the step of inferring the existence of
the verb and started using it. the term. Googling on "store buy", I find a
lot of irrelevant hits with 'store' and 'buy' next to each other, but when I
searched for 'we store buy', I found this:

Do you use vitamins fromyour pedatrition or store buy them?
Options:

  a.. yes, we only use what the doctor gives us
  b.. no, we store buy them
http://www.cafemom.com/quizzes/poll_view.php?id=22151

Neal Whitman
Email: nwhitman at ameritech.net
Blog: http://literalminded.wordpress.com

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> Somewhat of a stretch, but there is the term "store-bought" (dated by
> MWCD10 as 1905) which suggests (but does not prove) the existence of a
> term "to store-buy" with a sense somewhat related to the ones discussed on
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