What's the difference between shop & shoppe?

"shoppe" is the MIDDLE English spelling of the word, which some like to use to create an "old-fashioned" aura

For an example of this ending, and other words that use the same old -e ending, take a look at selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. For instance, in "The Cook's Tale" you find the line:

"For in thy shoppe is many a flye loos."

The modern English spelling would be:

"For in thy shop is many a fly loose."

http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/gcha...

So what are those final -e's doing there? Well, they actually reflect an even older age of the language --Old English, like other Germanic languages it is related to, had an elaborate systems of endings on its nouns (and the adjectives that went with them). The endings were used to mark three things:

1. gender ('masculine, feminine, neuter)

2. number (singular or plural) -- we still use these, but simplified

3. case - that is, marking the function of the word in the sentence: as the subject (='hominative' case), as direct indirect objects of the verb (mostly 'accusative' and 'dative' cases), etc. -- we don't really use "case" endings anymore except with pronouns ("he" for the subject, but "hiM" for the object)

This system, called "inflection", is still found in many European languages. For a simple example you may know -- the original German name of the Christmas carol known in English as "Silent Night" is "Stille Nacht". The root form of the adjective is "still", the -e ending is used for feminine forms ("Nacht" is a grammatically feminine noun, so the adjective that goes with it takes a feminine ending).

To see the system of endings in Old English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_morpholog...

Now the Old English inflecional system fell apart over time --the endings wre gradually lost. Yet we do continue to see some evidence of them in Middle English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English

By the way, note that with a short vowel (like the o in shop-) the final p was doubled before the ending (hence "shoPPe"). That 'extra' consonant was dropped when the ending disappeared, BUT it is still found in related forms, like the verbe forms "shopped" or "shopping".

I think the other answers are great. Old-time spelling is a popular trend. If you ever go to a Renaissance or Shakespearean festival you might see the word "shoppe" used for a historic effect.

Shoppe is old English as in Ye Olde Shoppe, shop is modern shop as in the old shop.

It is a form of the word adopted from old English.

It is also a 'shop' that wants to charge more for the same goods...

it is the same thing but a different spelling. shop used to be shoppe, which originated in england(i think, pretty sure).

Shop is the action. Shoppe is the place.

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-The observe "Shoppe" comes from the understanding "client", which used for use to locate people "allotting" classified ads. maximum of those classified ads have been for products on the industry, and the guy employed to allotting them into no longer in simple terms residences yet in addition on partitions, businesses, etc, have been spoke of as "purchasers". With time, and with technologies progression, purchasers weren't longer needed, yet, the understanding stayed to "bypass procuring"... -shop and Shoppe are stated a similar, and that they mean a similar, right component: procuring. yet once you in simple terms use shop, it additionally ought to intend "A corporation" of any sort...

Price will be higher in shoppe.

for some reason when i see it spelled shoppe i want to say Shop-ey and then that reminds me of Finding Nemo when dori is like "Es-cop-ey...hey its kinda spelled like escape!" lol