Broken Rudder Repair Shop

Bridge Bay Resort, Lake Shasta, California. Another in my occasional series on language usage quirks, here showing how "shop" is still often a "workshop" in the US, not necessarily a place where you buy things!

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Cold War Warrior

We have the same usage, "workshop" and "repair shop" are sometimes seen shortened to just "shop". Does the shop name mean they only repair rudders? :))

6 years ago.

slgwv ^club

Somewhere I'd seen that expressions like "the car is in the shop" (meaning it's being repaired) puzzled Britons. Is that not the case, then?

I'd also read somewhere that "shop" came from the same root as "shape," meaning it was a place where things were "shaped." However, the Online Etymology Dictionary doesn't agree--

6 years ago.

Cold War Warrior has replied to slgwv ^club

I go with the Online Etymology Dictionary. Interestingly, the Polish for shop is "skljep", not too far from ""scoppa".

6 years ago.

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