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BobbyTables2
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Why isn’t the “pantry” called the “food store”?
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justinclift
4 hours ago
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Does your pantry have a cashier and let you buy stuff there?
Because a food store sounds like it does.
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jjtheblunt
16 hours ago
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yeah but syntactically "car park" gets used like a noun phrase, not verb phrase, which was (to your point really) what had me think "huh?" momentarily.
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