Clerk, the vocational title, commonly refers to a white collar office worker who conducts general office or (in some instances) sales tasks. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include record keeping, filing, staffing service counters and other administrative tasks. In
American English, this includes shop staff, but in
British English, such people are known as shop assistants and are not considered to be clerks. Also, the correct British English pronunciation of the word sounds more like clark whereas the American English is as expected, however both are now acceptable in the everyday language of British English.
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