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What would you call a person who stands outside a store, shouting to attract customers and often handing out flyers?
A) a barker
B) a hawker
C) a pitchman/pitchwoman
D) something else (please comment)
What sounds most natural to you?
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Answers · 8
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I am from Tennessee. My family would call these people solicitors. I have actually never heard them called hawkers or barkers.
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Also American. I'd call that person a barker, but I don't think most Americans know that word anymore. It's quite dated, in part because we don't have the sort of society anymore where people stand outside a shop trying to get customers in that way.
1
I agree with solicitors.
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As an American, I would call this person a barker.
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