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minus-squareGiveOver ( GiveOver@feddit.uk ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoYou see phrasing like that in the news quite a lot, where they squeeze their occupation into a sentence. Here’s another random example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62y04r563po Former fish and chip shop owner John Dutton suffered a severe stroke… Maybe it looks a bit off because you’d usually write “painter and decorator”? It’s normal to say “painter decorator” for short though.
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You see phrasing like that in the news quite a lot, where they squeeze their occupation into a sentence. Here’s another random example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62y04r563po
Maybe it looks a bit off because you’d usually write “painter and decorator”? It’s normal to say “painter decorator” for short though.
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