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Nor Priest Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Is fever pill a normal word?
Which word do you use when you want to say "fever pill" ?
You say "fever pill" or "fever-lowering pill" or "antipyretic" or "febrifuge" or anything else.
I want to use the most normal word that everyone could get it easily. Especially, when I go to drugstore.
Thank you.
You say "fever pill" or "fever-lowering pill" or "antipyretic" or "febrifuge" or anything else.
I want to use the most normal word that everyone could get it easily. Especially, when I go to drugstore.
Thank you.
Top answer
Around here, "fever pill" is not the way to say that. " I can't think of an everyday word for a pill you take for fever. If you are talking to an actual pharmacist, say "antipyretic".
- Around here, "fever pill" is not the way to say that.
- " I can't think of an everyday word for a pill you take for fever.
- If you are talking to an actual pharmacist, say "antipyretic".
- If you are talking to the chubby, gum-chewing 19-year-old high-school-dropout cashier girl with the press-on fingernails who has to stop scratching her scalp with her pinkie through her bouffant hairdo to listen to you because she can't do three things at the same time, also say "antipyretic" just to see the look on her face before she lifts the house phone and pages the manager.
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Around here, "fever pill" is not the way to say that. I would say, "I need something for a fever." I can't think of an everyday word for a pill you take for fever. If you are talking to an actual pharmacist, say "antipyretic". If you are talking to the chubby, gum-chewing 19-year-old high-school-dropout cashier girl with the press-on fingernails who has to stop scratching her scalp with her pinkie
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