{"id":8124,"date":"2013-01-18T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2013-01-18T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T15:05:06","slug":"the-person-on-the-till","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8124","title":{"rendered":"The person on the till"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the French conversation group one of the things we talked about was shopping, particularly in supermarkets, and one of the words we weren&#8217;t sure of was till \/ cash register. I now know this is <em>la caisse (enregistreuse)<\/em> or <em>le tiroir caisse<\/em> and that someone who works on a till is possibly <em>un caissier<\/em> or <em>une caissi\u00e8re<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking what you call such a person in English. You might call them a shop assistant or maybe a cashier, but neither of these seems to fit the job very well. <\/p>\n<p>What would you call such a person? Would the term you use depend on the kind of shop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at the French conversation group one of the things we talked about was shopping, particularly in supermarkets, and one of the words we weren&#8217;t sure of was till \/ cash register. I now know this is la caisse (enregistreuse) or le tiroir caisse and that someone who works on a till is possibly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}