Re: Drugstore or pharmacy?

Wood Avens wrote:
"Skitt" wrote:
LFS wrote, in very small part:

*And a very good one, which we can still recite off by heart.

ObAUE: recite *off*?

Idiomatic and unremarkable ib BrE. Not so in AmE, then?

I'd say "recite by heart".

Google:
"recite off by heart" = 246
"recite by heart" = 6680 --
Skitt (AmE)

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