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Old 09-29-19, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by daoswald
People here have been too gracious to mention that you don't "sale" something, you "sell" it. You can put an item up for sale. It can be given sale pricing, or be an item that is on sale. The person who sold it to you made a sale. But the word 'sale' is a noun, not a verb. Similarly, you would not say, "I want to transaction my bike."
Perhaps its grace, or perhaps its lack of interest in correcting a minor grammatical error when it's still easy to understand the intent.
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