[Tagging] Estate agent

[Andy Mabbett]

On 17 May 2015 at 17:23, Tod Fitch <tod at fitchdesign.com> wrote:

> Perhaps is it because I speak American rather than British, but to me a shop is a place where the item(s) I buy can be carried out, if not in a shopping bag then on a truck (lorry). Assuming that “estate agent” translates to “real estate agent”, I would expect them to work out of an office rather than out of a shop.

There was a row of three shops on my local hgh street: Butcher, baker
and soft furnishings.

Five years ago, the baker went bust, as was replaced by an estate agent.

Two years ago, the estate agent, being very successful, moved to
larger premises, elsewhere, and the former baker's shop is now a
cheese shop.

Did the middle premises stop being a shop, and then start being a shop again?

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Andy Mabbett
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