Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
shop 2, bodega, boutique, shoppe, store (nn.)
What Americans call a store, the British call a shop, but Americans now use both terms, although frequently with a semantic distinction: retail establishments that sell groceries or hardware or liquor, for example, are nearly always called stores, but hats and dresses are usually sold in shops or, if very select and expensive (or with pretensions to being so), in boutiques (English pronunciation BOO-TEEKS). And many other retail places can be any of the three. Shoppe is an archaic spelling of shop, restored to service by shopkeepers hoping to add some distinction to the names of their businesses. Bodega (pronounced bo-DAI-guh) was originally the Spanish name for a wineshop or a wineshop-and-grocery combination, and Hispanic-Americans now use the term generally for their ethnically distinctive food-and-drink retail stores.
