Drink/drinks stall

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Is a stall selling drinks a 'drink stall' or 'drinks stall'?

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[+3] - roger - 08/02/2011If you are talking about two of them, it would be drink stalls. You might have two horse stables, but you would not have two horses stables no matter how many horses were in each one.

@tanguatlay,

drinks

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@tanguatlay,

You sell drinks, plural, not just a drink.

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@izzythepush,

izzythepush wrote:

You sell drinks, plural, not just a drink.

Thanks. Izzy. I am confused because a shop selling shoes is called a 'shoe shop' if I am not wrong although they sell shoes, not one shoe.

So why not 'drink stall'? It drives me crazy.

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@tanguatlay,

Drink stall. There is only one drink stall.

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@roger,

I've never heard either description used... the words drink or drinks, with the word stall. But, I'm from the u.s.

just riffing here:

coke machine

soda shop

candy store

drugstore

Pizza hut

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@roger,

roger wrote:

Drink stall. There is only one drink stall.

Thanks, Roger. So what if there are two stalls selling drinks? Two drinks stalls OR Two drink stalls. Confused

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@ossobuco,

I've read about drinks stalls, but I've never heard the term in use here.

I always thought it was like a cocktail bar/counter in a theatre, but I never really considered it seriously. Must look it up.

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@ossobuco,

Thanks, Ossobuco.

Is it possible to say 'drink store' or is it 'drinks store'? I mean a store selling all sorts of drinks.

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@ossobuco,

well I couldn't have been more wrong

this is a drinks stall in Mumbai

http://www.terragalleria.com/images/india/indi39136.jpeg

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@tanguatlay,

If you are talking about two of them, it would be drink stalls. You might have two horse stables, but you would not have two horses stables no matter how many horses were in each one.

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@roger,

roger wrote:

If you are talking about two of them, it would be drink stalls. You might have two horse stables, but you would not have two horses stables no matter how many horses were in each one.

Thanks, Roger. You said Drink stall. There is only one drink stall. Sorry. I think I misunderstood you. I thought "one drink stall", so it should be "two drinks stalls"

My understanding now is that it should be a 'drink stall' regardless of how many types of drinks are sold by it.

Thanks for your help.

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@roger,

Roger, do you have drink/drinks stalls where you live?

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

Roger, do you have drink/drinks stalls where you live?

Roger has confirmed that it is 'drink stalls'.

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@tanguatlay,

I think Roger is telling you what he thinks they should be called, not what they are commonly referred to in places where they exist.

Sometimes what makes the most sense grammatically has nothing to do with what the answer is. It is English after all. It doesn't have to make sense.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

I think Roger is telling you what he thinks they should be called, not what they are commonly referred to in places where they exist.

Sometimes what makes the most sense grammatically has nothing to do with what the answer is. It is English after all. It doesn't have to make sense.

Oh dear! I am totally confused. Could someone please confirm whether it should be 'drink stall' or 'drinks stall'. I thought Roger had given me the correct version.

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@tanguatlay,

google.ca gives over 6,000,000 hits on drinks stall and similar numbers on drink stall

it seems to be at least somewhat regional - drinks stalls are found in India and Hong Kong (on a quick scroll through the results) while they are called drink stalls in New Zealand. You don't find drink or drinks stalls in Canada at all.

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@izzythepush,

Even though we don't have such a thing over here, I stick by what I said. You meet for drinks not drink, a bar sells drinks.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

Sometimes what makes the most sense grammatically has nothing to do with what the answer is. It is English after all. It doesn't have to make sense.

Well of course. If everything in the language made sense, we wouldn't need the word 'idiom', would we?

Sure we have drink stalls. We just happen to call them 'vendors'.

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@roger,

Thanks again, Roger. I'm no longer confused. Very Happy

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