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Posted: 04 May 2017

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Broken Rudder Repair Shop

Broken Rudder Repair Shop
Bridge Bay Resort, Lake Shasta, California. Another in my occasional series on language usage quirks, here showing how "shop" is still often a "workshop" in the US, not necessarily a place where you buy things!
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Somewhere I'd seen that expressions like "the car is in the shop" (meaning it's being repaired) puzzled Britons. Is that not the case, then?

I'd also read somewhere that "shop" came from the same root as "shape," meaning it was a place where things were "shaped." However, the Online Etymology Dictionary doesn't agree--
7 years ago.

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