Eh, reading comments reminds me of a couple of other things.
The English go shopping, not marketing; marketing means selling, here. And going 'to the market' would usually mean an outdoor (sometimes indoor) collection of small stalls, all selling different things; we'd usually just 'go shopping' or 'go to the shops' or to a specific shop - "I'm just off to Tesco [the butcher/greengrocer/ironmonger], do you need anything?" We don't go to 'the store[s]'; that's mostly only used in conjunction with another word/partial word, e.g. 'superstore' (huge supermarket), or 'department store' (such as Selfridges).
Another one is the propensity of some authors to leave 'Street', 'Road', etc off street names - far too often Harry Potter heads for Diagon. Nope, Diagon Alley, full name, please! Oxford? Oxford the town, Oxford Street, Oxford Circus? At the junction of Baker and Oxford... What? I live on (yes, it is 'on') Hargrave Park. Not Hargrave Road, which is up the main road a bit on the other side, and definitely not on Hargrave. Also, we don't generally have 'blocks'. From one street junction to another can cross a different number of roads on each side of the main road one is travelling along! For instance, to get from the bottom of my road to the junction of Holloway Road and Junction Road crosses my street and two others on this side; on the other side it crosses two. And not in the same places as the ones on this side, either.
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Date: 1/13/13 11:59 pm (UTC)The English go shopping, not marketing; marketing means selling, here. And going 'to the market' would usually mean an outdoor (sometimes indoor) collection of small stalls, all selling different things; we'd usually just 'go shopping' or 'go to the shops' or to a specific shop - "I'm just off to Tesco [the butcher/greengrocer/ironmonger], do you need anything?" We don't go to 'the store[s]'; that's mostly only used in conjunction with another word/partial word, e.g. 'superstore' (huge supermarket), or 'department store' (such as Selfridges).
Another one is the propensity of some authors to leave 'Street', 'Road', etc off street names - far too often Harry Potter heads for Diagon. Nope, Diagon Alley, full name, please! Oxford? Oxford the town, Oxford Street, Oxford Circus? At the junction of Baker and Oxford... What? I live on (yes, it is 'on') Hargrave Park. Not Hargrave Road, which is up the main road a bit on the other side, and definitely not on Hargrave. Also, we don't generally have 'blocks'. From one street junction to another can cross a different number of roads on each side of the main road one is travelling along! For instance, to get from the bottom of my road to the junction of Holloway Road and Junction Road crosses my street and two others on this side; on the other side it crosses two. And not in the same places as the ones on this side, either.