to get really annoyed with people who call Tesco "Tescos'?

[bumptwitknocker]

This really annoys me. It's not called Tescos, it's just Tesco. You wouldn't say Asdas or Lidls or Aldis (sorry about the choice of supermarket examples, only ones that don't actually have an 's' on the end). Does anyone else get cross when their friends say they're "just going to Tescos"? I know there are more important things to worry about, but why would you call it that when it isn't called that?

pokes tongue out

YA obviously BU.

I say Tescos. But I don't say Asdas or Markses.

My mum calls Superdrug "Tip Top", bet that would really annoy you

Markses is no more wrong than Marks and Spencer's, is it?

Superdrug? Tip Top? But WHY???

My mum says 'markses' and also thinks the plural of 'breakfast' is 'breakfasses'. Grr!

I stick with saying M&S. It's much easier than Marks and Spencer or Markses.

Where I live it's not just shops that get an extra S on the end.

oh no.

you have knickers's
pyjamas's
socks's
shoes's
bags's

that drives me f**cking mental. Makes people sound thick.

MI - shouldn't that be Tip Tops

Mama be thankful my parents say Brake fist

I do say Marks and Spencer's actually now I think about it...

I say Tescos. And Asdas.

Is it a Scottish thing?

Although we say Markies

And sometimes Marks and Sparks

I think it used to be called Tip Top, or maybe that's just the shop that was in that spot before Superdrug, I dunno

I thought Tip Top was some kind of condensed milk

differentID - are you in the Southwest?

Mme Lindt - only rif raf say Markies according to my Dundonian mother.

'knickers's' ??? just so wrong

anyway yabu

Tesco needs the s on the end otherwise the word sounds incomplete IMO

OP - I TOTALLY agree with you. People who say it sound thick.

I think the Scottish do it more than the English MmeLindt. It's the natural accent thing. Maybe that's not quite as bad. I know a few people who say Marks and Sparks.

South Wales, meemar.

Thing is I grew up in West Wales and no one did it! We were told off for using poor English

OP - are you very bored?

I HATE it when people say 'texties' for text messages. It's friggin TEXTS!

rofl!

I'm fairly confident I don't 'sound thick'!

Fimbo
Well, my Mum always said Markies and she is from Perth, so posher than your Dundonian Mum (unless she is from the Ferry, then I will bow to her advice)

My mum calls the microwave the 'micro' Drives me bananas

Tescos I can live with- Wickes-es is what sets my teeth on edge- it's Wickes, with one s, it doesn't need another es on the end!

No my mother is from the esteemed West End! . She used to berate me for calling it Markies. I even have to train dh not to call it that in front of her.

Somerfields and Tescos - both okay.

Can't stand Kwop for Co-op though. Kworp is acceptable.