[Tagging] shop sub tag sell or sale

[Philip Barnes]

Definitely sells, sale do not make sense (bad English) and as you say is easily confused.

'The pub sells pickled eggs' makes sense whereas 'The pub sale(s) pickled eggs' is just wrong.

Phil (trigpoint) 

On 4 September 2017 08:38:08 BST, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>To put this out in the open - not to be confused with if it should be
>done,
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>but rather what is better.
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>So a new subject to attract attention and keep it only on what is
>better 
>- 'Sale' or 'Sells'.
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>The suggestions are to use a sub tag under shops that detail what is 
>available for purchase, one side is for using 'sale' the other for
>'sells'.
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>I'll use an example of a car shop that has VW and BMW available. In an 
>English sentence;
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>The car shop has BMW and VW for sale.
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>The car shop sells BMW and VW.
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>The later sentence is simpler and more easily abbreviated to
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>shop=car sells=BMW, VW
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>This is also more readily understood and less confusing than
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>
>shop=car sale=BMW, VW
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>There is a confusion with the word 'sale' being commonly used with
>shops 
>for a short term discount of goods usually to clear stock for another 
>season
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>e.g.
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>http://www.marksandspencer.com/c/offers/sale
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>http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/ms-huge-secret-sale-clothes-13459589
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>Comments - ideas ??? Straw poll?
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