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?

YAB a bit U.

I work with people who say the Asda like there's only one and I know I'm being unreasonable for wanting to kill them for it

dxx

Don't mind Tesco's but Wickes's does do my nut in.

One thing that is guaranteed to make my daughter hyper annoyed with me is to call Sainsbury's Sainsbo's. So of course I say it all the time .

Any Liverpool MNers around? What do scousers call Morrisons etc. Because if it is anything like Hozzie for hospital and lecky for electric is should be Mossers, surely?

Ah, the extras 's' is a classic down this way.

Often it's used in the context of people e.g, "I'm going to Caroles's house" or "That dvd is Peter's's"

And texts (as in text messages) are always 'textses'

YABU
I say it. Not for all of the supermarkets.
eg "Are we going to Tescos/ Farmfoods ?"
"I have just been to Lidls"
Asda is just Asda.
It must be an accent thing. I didn't even realise I said it until I said a few sentences out loud [weirdo smiley].
I am from Scotland BTW.
I don't think that I sound thick.

YANBU. This is a standing joke in our houseold and I definitely have heard people say "I'm going down Asda's". I heard someone say the other day that they used to work at "Fords" in Dagenham.

My Mum says 'Chris' isntead of Crisps, which drives me mad!

I also know someone who says 'car-board'.

I say tescos and sainsburys and marks's. Is it Marks and Spencers or just Marks and Spencer? I would not dream of saying the latter!! I think it's like going to someone's house that way (I'm going round to my Mum's [house]), so maybe we're all saying I'm going to Tesco's [stores].

btw I say this all with my crystal vowels - so don't sound stupid at all

Bumptwitknocker - what would you say rather than car-board? Surely it's like han-bag - you don't say the 'd'?

Sainsbo's really sets my teeth on edge - had never even heard of anyone saying it that way until coming on MN!

My DP calls crisps crisp in the singular e.g. 'I am going to have a bag of crisp'. It drives me bananas. His whole family says the same (me and dd end up in paroxysms of laughter at them all).

My dp adds an s to every company name - for example local Turkish restaurant Mangal is Mangals and Indian Rasa is Rasas. And it does drive me bokers, but then I am a fully signed-up t-shirt wearing member of GOGMAN (Grand Order of Grumpy Middle-Aged Nitpickers).

Now before I post this can I just make it known that I do NOT regularly watch Jezza Kyle.

However on the few occaasions I have accidentally watched it I have noticed many many of his delightful guest referring to mobile phone "texts" as "textses".

Give me strength.

stickylittlefingers - what do you mean "you don't say the 'd'" Of course you say the 'd'

My favourite for handbag is hambag

do you say Marks and Spencer or Marks and Spencers?
Sainsbury or Sainsburys?

Loads of people say the latter
I think they should be up against the wall with the Tescosers

Actually come to think of it it could be a hangover from ye olden days - Tesco, Sainsbury and Marks and Spencer were all named after real people so it should be Sainbury's for eg

I don't think there was a Mr Asda or a Mr Aldi was there?

if you say the d you sound like your one from the importance of being earnest.

It's also one of those famous fallacies - people will swear blind that they say the d, but in conversation will just say hanbag. Just listen the next time you hear anyone discussing them...

I have exactly the same thing with the supermarket that I use.

For some reason I always say "Fortnums" rather than the full version. Drives DH up the wall.

Countess - but the difference is that Sainsbury's is the actual name of the company - Tesco's isn't.

er, bonkers

I say Tescos, I also would say asdas. I wouldn't say lidls, maybe it's because of the vowel on the end?.....

I take that back because I wouldn't say homebases iyswim.

Spam - when you slum it and go to that frightful little Knightsbridge grocers, do you call it Harrodses?

My mother in law regularly does a little trip out with dcs when she's over here. We always snigger to ourselves when she explains she had "a mooch round Mataland" followed by a coffee in "McDonald"

Do you say the ts in 'glottal stop'?