I mean when we should say:shop and store.  For example:        [1] *  He is working at a barbershop.   [2] *  He is working at a barber store.      Why we say coffee shop and not coffee store.  Why we say department store and not department shop?
The day before yesterday I think, my daughter asked me where we were going and since I was not planning to do the weekly shopping on that day and I just wanted to buy some stuff from two stores, I said offhand we are going to the shops! Looking back, it seems when I don't find a NAmE word I turn to UK if I know of.  So what do you say when:   go shopping (it's just go shopping!) you go to buy something specific; I mean you're not going shopping, and it's usually found in any store. You don't have to shop around. you want to buy non grocery or clothing stuff, maybe a can of paint and a spare part for your car together.    I have found some kind of answer for this question on , but I prefer to get a clear answer to my points above, and also if you agree with this native speaker about using store in singular form not plural:     Just as a side note, we don't use the plural in American English. "I'm   going to the store" (even if I may visit several stores), not "I'm   going to the stores". (If we know we are going to several stores I   think it would be more likely to say "I'm going shopping" or even "I'm   going downtown" in smaller towns.)
If a character who was under the effect of a growth potion (double their height and eight times their weight) and weighed 2,400 lbs. was able to use Dimension Door to teleport 400 feet or more into the air, directly above a Huge-sized monster, and fell on it, how much damage would the falling creature - and the monster - take?  I would assume both would take the 20d6 max for the falling over 200 feet, but is there a estimation on additional damage for the falling creature's size?  According to the splat calculator, at 500 feet you'd be falling at 196 km/hr, and it would expend 1.6 million joules of energy, the equivalent of over 3,000 mid-sized cars hitting an object at 60 km/hr.  A 2,400-lb. barbarian falling 500 feet is like dropping a mid-sized Toyota Corolla off a 50 story building onto a monster - it should do some damage. Install suspension forks on non-suspension bike I'm just wondering how it is possible that IGN.com has this in its title tag:      Video Games, Cheats, Walkthroughs, Game Trailers, Reviews, News, Previews &amp; Videos at IGN   while on Google its title is simply "IGN".   How can one achieve such a thing? Does it use some special meta tag I can't see? I try to solve this problem. I seems to come close to the end but I can't get the conclusion. Can someone help me complete my proof. Thanks          Show that the polynomial $h(x) = (x-1)(x-2)\cdots(x-n) + 1$ is irreducible over $\mathbb Z$ for all $n\ge1$ and $ n\ne4$.      Suppose $h(x) = f(x) g(x)$, then we must have $f(i)g(i) = 1$ for all $i = 1,2,...n$. So both $f(i)$ and $g(i)$ are $1$ or $-1$. In either case, $m(x) = f(x) - g(x)$ has degree smaller than $n$ and have $n$ different roots ($1,2,...,n$). So we must have $m(x) = 0$. Then $h(x) = f(x)^{2}$. So $n$ must be even. Let $n = 2k$. 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I see 3 main ways that people use it:   auto fill / auto filled  auto-fill / auto-filled autofill / autofilled   Note: this also applies to pre fill, pre-fill, and prefill as well.  Which way is the most preferred spelling? I plan on building a computer with  which has no GPU:     Graphics Specifications      Processor Graphics:   None   on a  motherboard which has an onboard integrated graphics processor:     Integrated Graphics Processor:         1 x D-Sub port, supporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1200@60Hz   1 x DVI-D port, supporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1200@60Hz   1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 4096x2160@24Hz or 2560x1600@60Hz   Support for up to 3 displays at the same time   Maximum shared memory of 512 MB      I have asked  and know that even if the CPU has no GPU, I can still get video as long as the motherboard has onboard graphics. However, when I went to buy the parts at a computer center yesterday, the technician said motherboards nowadays use CPU's GPU to display, including this Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H motherboard (which he meant this board has no real onboard graphics).  So for Xeon E3 1231v3 + Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H to display, do I need a video card or not?  (I don't really care about the graphics quality. I use the computer mostly to write programs, web browsing, and Photoshop, and seldom play games or watch videos.) How do I complete "Find the Bitizen"? In tiny Death Star, Palpatine has given me the mission "Find the Bitizen" with the text "Working for tips is acceptable. Find 1 Bitizen(s)."  I assumed I had to wait for one of the events where you have to find a "rebel scum" and tap on it to get rid of. One of those events finally popped up but it did not complete the mission.   How do I complete this mission? How to solve ~(P → Q) : P & ~Q by natural deduction? I'm trying to solve the following by natural deduction:  ~(P → Q) : P &amp; ~Q  It's a trivial problem if identities are used, as can be seen by the following:   {1}      1.   ~(P → Q)                    Prem. {1}      2.   ~(~P ∨ Q)                   1 Mat. Impl. {1}      3.   ~~P & ~Q                    2 De Morgan's {1}      4.   P & ~Q                      3 DNE   Starting from step 2 of the previous proof, it's also fairly straightforward to reach a conclusion using natural deduction; i.e. starting from ~(~P ∨ Q), which is an identity of ~(P → Q):  ~(~P ∨ Q) :  P &amp; ~Q   {1}      1.   ~(~P ∨ Q)                   Prem. {2}      2.   ~P                          Assum. {2}      3.   ~P ∨ Q                      2 ∨I {1,2}    4.   ~(~P ∨ Q) & (~P ∨ Q)        1,3 &I {1}      5.   P                           2,4 RAA {6}      6.   Q                           Assum. {6}      7.   ~P ∨ Q                      6 ∨I {1,6}    8.   ~(~P ∨ Q) & (~P ∨ Q)        1,7 &I {1}      9.   ~Q                          6,8 RAA {1}      10.  P & ~Q                      5,9 &I   I also found that it's fairly easy to conclude ~Q:   {1}      1.   ~(P → Q)                    Prem. {2}      2.   Q                           Assum. {3}      3.   P                           Assum. {2,3}    4.   P & Q                       2,3 &I {2,3}    5.   Q                           4 &E {2}      6.   P → Q                       3,5 CP {1,2}    7.   ~(P → Q) & (P → Q)          1,6 &I {1}      8.   ~Q                          2,7 RAA ... {1,2}    12.  P & ~Q   In spite of how easy it looks, I can't figure out how to do it. I believe it can be done in 12 steps. Thanks! How to find and replace a string by increasing its numerical part? Can I use my device on a different carrier? Sometimes it's desirable to use a device on a carrier that does not officially sell it. Often this is due to regional differences and travel (for example, using a US phone in Europe) but also because some carriers simply do not offer phones that other carriers do.  How can I determine if it's possible to use my phone on a different carrier, and which carriers it is compatible with?    This community wiki is intended to be a canonical answer to a common question. If you feel that improvements could be made then please edit the post(s). How were the number of rounds for different key sizes of AES selected? The number of AES rounds increases with the key length. Why increase the number of rounds at all, and how were these round counts chosen? Using competitors domain with different ending to boost traffic In the following sentence:     The city is populated by many people.   "many" can be replaced by something like "a great number of" (let us leave the perceived differences between the meanings of these two modifiers out of discussion):     The city is populated by a great number of people.   I understand that this replacement does not change the object "populating the city" from the original "people" to a "number", but rather shows the ability of expressions in the form "[numeral] of" to provide information about the quantity of nouns they modify.  Is this ability due to some special qualities of nouns such as "number", "quantity", "fraction", &amp;c., or is it just one usage of the preposition "of"? Google Maps API map doesn't appear Is it possible to install an iPhone app in MacBook Pro? Why is $5^{n+1}+2\cdot 3^n+1$ a multiple of $8$ for every natural number $n$? I have to show by induction that this function is a multiple of 8. I have tried everything but I can only show that is multiple of 4, some hints? 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()  So this is a problem for a physics tournament, but I haven't tried it myself yet. However I have found a video depicting what I mean.