It's Tesco not Tescos!

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Anyone else find it annoying when people add an 'S' on the end of shop names that don't have an 'S' on the end of them? Or AIBU?

You and Yours presenter on R4 just now called Tesco "Tescos". I can normally hear it without feeling the need to rant on AIBU but hearing it from a R4 presenter has broken the camel's back!

PMSL @ those who don't have the time to concern themselves with such things - but do have the time to comment on this thread on the subject :)

We go to Waitrose just to avoid the superfluous 's' issue.

Unless we're going to Tesco's or Lidl.

I can't be bothered to 'listen again' on R4 but I'm 99% sure it was used in a nominative (if that's the right way to put it) and not a possessive sense in the program.

Henry Higgins types who build a career on studying accent, pronunciation and speech pattern? Cultural Anthropologists? Elocution/voice/Speech and Drama teachers? Certainly some very smart people- if they're going to cultivate you, they want to be sure you're a safe bet to introduce to polite society and they notice.

My mum:

Markses
Tescos
Topshops!
Aldis

My whole family:
Wayh- rose

😬

It was used in a nominative form.

I don't mind Tesco or Tescos/Tescoes (sp??)

I think ASDAs sounds very common though

The only one that winds me up is Mataland. WTF?! Mataland?!

Hmm I say Tescos and sainsburys but Asda and Waitrose. Asdas sounds weird to me! Not at all consistent!!

I have issues with people not putting the s on pounds.

"That's four pound."

No, it's four pounds.

Nothing wrong with "I've just been to Tesco's".
Everything wrong with "There is a Tesco's in the high street".
As OP said, the nominative form does not take a possessive. That is because it's nominative. Grrrr

Haha I call it Tescos!
And asdas, lidls etc... you would hate me!

Perhaps we should reassign all the superfluous 's' characters to those words missing their 's' like pound/pounds?

But who would be arbiter of the rules?

99% of Mumsnet is devoted to sweating the small stuff. We don't need to be patronised because something other than a life or death issue is irksome and comment worthy

Yes, v annoying to me too.

But not as annoying as my colleague who says, 'Markses' for Marks and Spencer. Makes me want to punch her.

ASDAS pisses me off far more than Tescos for some reason!!

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut please don't get me started on £pound! Aaah!

I have got time to comment here because I'm on my lunch break. I won't sit and think about it all day, don't worry

Oh god I glanced up and thought this had stretched to 42 pages rather than 42 replies

@Baldrick I only know the one person who says "Waitroses", so I know it's just his personal tic- and says it "wait-roses" with a v soft t, rather than "wai-troses" with a "tr" sound. But it's v grating to hear! Same chap also says "Lake-LAND" emphasis on the latter.... I find it rather breaks his speech pattern and is like a wrong note in a piece of music to listen to.

Marks & Spensive according to DD when she was tiny. It stuck.

OP - can I point you to Pedants' Corner?

Please don't go to Pedants' Corner.

Or if you do, remember we'll be happy to discuss the nuances of the possessive S and why it sounds right with some shop names than others, but we don't really go in for the teeth itching and prescriptive language usage.

Surely if you are going to Tesco' you are going to Tescos the shop belonging to Tesco so there is an s......

At our bus station, the digital sign reads "Orchard Park Tesco's". FFS, we are meant to be a City of Culture...

*wanders

I think about this stuff all fucking day and night.

I heard it on You and Yawns as well. I don't like it. It's as wrong as it be to call Harrod's Harrod or Selfridges Selfridge. My friend calls M&S Marks's and that sounds bonkers to me.

I find the Auldi pronunciation of Aldi odd but I say Liddle for Lidl.

I only shop at Waity's.