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Americans, on the other hand, saw their country largely emerge in the 19th and 20th Centuries
in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. By this time, Modern English was well established.
While earlier settlements in the east of the nation saw home crafted items as more common initially.
With the advent of factories, many of the homemade items became manufactured instead as prices
dropped with the increase of production. American settlement was done more quickly than in England.
In England villages spread out as the population grew, eventually having new villages established a short distance
away from the original as lands at the first site became overpopulated. This settlement happened over centuries.

In America though, settlement happened over decades. New settlements were not always established near the old ones.
Settlers traveled along trails and later railroads. Settlements often were separated by tens or hundreds of miles.
As such at most settlements along these routes, large warehouses/stores were established to aid travelers
and communities not near established communities with fully established artisan communities or factories
from which to obtain crafted items. Additionally, even in areas with an abundance of one commodity, such as wood,
metal or coal might still be scarce and as such a cooper or a foundry might not be around. Again Americans relied
more heavily on general supply stores than small shops for their wares. This being the case, most Americans came
to refer to the retailer from which they bought or traded as a 'store', whereas a specialty retailer that produced
one type or a limited type of items, and thus often was contained in a smaller establishment, as a 'shop'.

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