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Vocabulary query
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 6:16 pm
by sheikh radlinrol
Headway English uses ''changing room'' to refer to the place in a shop or store where you try on garments you are considering buying. For me this is a ''fitting room''. A ''changing room'' is where you change to do sport etc.
Who is right?
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:15 pm
by lucy lace
Both are right. It depends on what dialect you speak.
Interestingly, I use "changing room" at a clothing store, but "change room" at the gym.
"Fitting room" sounds a bit formal/British to my ear.
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 10:33 pm
by metal56
lucy lace wrote:Both are right. It depends on what dialect you speak.
Interestingly, I use "changing room" at a clothing store, but "change room" at the gym.
"Fitting room" sounds a bit formal/British to my ear.
And "change room" sounds a bit Dr Jeckyll to me.
