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cue dramatic music
... of course, the aliens in charge of the grammar mavens have been known to get peeved ...
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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When we moved to AK, there was I recall, on Post, (Ft. Wainwright) a "groceteria" which was often shortened to "the grosh" or "the gross." It was indistinguishable from what we would call today, "a convience store." Now that's just gross! It really does sound funny to my ears. It's not a word in (standard) Spanish, although a homophone is "groserķa", which means something rude (gross/coarse). In Spanish the suffix "-erķa" often denotes a venue that sells whatever the root part is, for example: zapaterķa (zapato = shoe), panaderķa (pan = bread) and so on. (Hence, also, "cafeterķa"...) I suspect that it was pronounced gross-uh-TEER-ee-uh rather than in any Spanish way. but speaking of Spanish, when I was visiting a customer in New Jersey and working on one of their machines that my company made, the mostly Spanish workers there referred to the traveling lunch truck that came around during the noon hour as la loncherķa.
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You're right, Faldage! I sorta jumped over the "te" in there... Yes, Spanglish is my third language. ;0) It's interesting about loncherķa, though, because the word "loncha" means "slice", and often sandwiches are made with slices of stuff, so you could almost justify that one! One that will likely be adopted into Spanish is "chequear". The word "cheque" is legitimate, but only as a noun referring to a bank check, but I think that is a foot in the door for the illegitimate verb form. :0)
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and a diner was a small coffee shop/eatery that started out as a dining car of of a train.. ( In Australia the first diners were also dining carriages on trains. Later the American usage for a cafe-restaurant on a main highway came in.
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