There are certain terms that weuse just like that without really caring to know their exact meanings. It is inthe nature of the human beings, to remain satisfied with the vague meaning of theterms and if we have been able to somewhat gauge the meaning of a particularterm in a particular context, we do not bother to spare time and get themeaning of the term checked out in a dictionary. This has almost become the goof the day. Apart from the people who are really interested in a particularlanguage, the others are just satisfied with barely being able to talk.

In the face of this kind of asituation there are times when a word comes to be used frequently and evenliterally with the wrong usage. People get used to and also use the word in thewrong sense only. This is particularly the case with the terms in English.English is a language that is foreign to almost the whole world, apart from Great Britain.Being a global language it is used all over the world in all the major events. Therefore,it had become mandatory for the people all over the world to know the languagesomehow. In many countries of the world people have modified the languageaccording to their own convenience. Thus the results are that we have countryspecific English like American English, Indian English, Spanish English etc.

When a language becomes so verywidespread there are bound to be some sort of difference in the use of theterms and also in the meanings of the terms. As and when English startedtraversing the nations of the world it went on acquiring the modifications.

In this article I would like toconcentrate on two such terms that seem to be synonymous and that are used veryfrequently yet actually they have two very distinct and different meanings. Theterms are shopping and buying. People either make perplexed faces when askedwhat is the difference between the terms or give really funny answers. Theanswer is actually simple. Buying is to buy a thing. To choose a thing and thento pay for it in order to incur it is buying. Shopping is also misunderstood tohave the same meaning. In reality shopping is something similar to analyzingthe market. Atleast in technical terms. Shopping refers to scanning the marketin terms of prices, trends, commodity etc. When you say you are going forshopping it is not exactly wrong. Because as such we scan the market and thenonly we buy. But when we pay for a thing we do not shop for it, instead we buyit.

As is the case with offlinemarket, even online you can shop and buy. Almost all the necessities of lifecan be both shopped and bought online. Ecommerce is the go of the day as peoplehave little time to spare. Thus most of the shopping and buying is done online.The ventures who have stores online vie to win more and more customers withtheir respective .There are many stores who are not just into readymade . In order to make their mark online they prefer custom software development. Very soonit is expected that like ecommerce, m commerce would also come up.  What is best is that with hoards of companiesavailable online one can easily shop for the one which gives us the bestsolution at cheapest rate.