Timeline for What’s the difference between errands and shopping?
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| Mar 21, 2023 at 16:23 | comment | added | Chris H | @minnmass the dictionaries I go to first have housework (a common synonym for "chores" here in the UK) first, and the boring routine stuff second. But a close second, I'd say. Certainly something like "the systems in work make ordering supplies into a chore" seems perfectly reasonable (as well as a whinge about my afternoon!) | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 14:25 | comment | added | minnmass | @ChrisH: true, but my experience is that MW's order of definitions is more common - merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chore - where "hard or unpleasant task" is #3 after "the regular or daily light work of a household or farm" and "a routine task or job" (the latter of which is, IME, especially used for the jobs of children - eg., making their beds). | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 14:23 | comment | added | minnmass | @MichaelHarvey: true, but "regularly at the home/homestead/farm" and "irregularly and away" is a pretty good rule of thumb to differentiate between "chore" and "errand". | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 12:28 | comment | added | Chris H | @minnmass don't forget the other (related) meaning of "chore" - "a hard or unpleasant task", which definitely doesn't have to be domestic. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 20:19 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @minnmass - Not all dictionaries define a chore as only something done at home. There are household chores and other types. | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 19:55 | comment | added | minnmass | IME: a "chore" is something done at home, usually something that happens regularly (washing the dishes, dusting, etc.; on a farm, they could include daily work like milking the cows). An "errand" is something done outside the home, and the term doesn't carry the "regular" connotation so much (eg., going to the post office to pick up a package would be an errand, even if it only happens a couple of times a year). | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 13:10 | comment | added | Toby Speight | I hear it loosely used for any small necessary job (i.e. the same as chore), but yes, I think the usual definition is that it's for someone else. Shopping for someone else is even less fun than shopping for oneself, IMHO! | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 12:50 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | @TobySpeight - aren't errands something you do for someone else? | |
| Mar 20, 2023 at 12:50 | history | edited | Michael Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2023 at 11:00 | history | answered | Michael Harvey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |