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

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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?

And I sometimes refer to John Lewises, thereby confirming my own theory.

Boots's, Lewis's?

OP, I am going to really piss you off and declare that I shop at Tescos, Marksies and Johnny Lulus. It is because I am northern.

I work with someone who says craysh instead of creche

it really sets my teeth on edge

come to think of it the same woman says tippos instead of typos

I may have to flush her head down the bog or something

I don't know what I usually say. I've been sat here saying "Tesco" and "Tesco's" over and over and I still don't know.

My Grandma calls Waitrose Wait-Rosie's

Also, I would argue that "Tescos" rather than "Tesco" sounds softer and therefore fools the mind into believing that a trip there will not eat your soul.

Oh no, Madmentalbint, I am going to have to adopt that now as well.

I say both Tesco and Tescos I think...now I'm thinking about it I'm not sure!

greensleeves - that might be my mother - I don't know about typose (not something we've discussed), but I do try and get her to say nursery now that my attempts at "cresh" have fallen on deaf ears. I wonder where that comes from?

"I shop at Tesco". "I am going to Tesco's". Sounds right to me. Similar to "I like Jane". "I am going to Jane's".

As a past employee at Tesco HQ if I remember rightly it is named after the founders T. E. Stockwell and Jack Cohen.

Stealthpolarbear
You could just pretend that you have just returned from a trip to Switzerland as that is how they pronounce Co-op around here.

sticky does she live in the south west?

if it is her, I apologise profusely for threatening to flush your mother's head down the bog

dh says burk instead of burp, drives me in sane

Johnny Lulu?

Now that one sounds rude.

I have a friend who says Asdas and cinemas

like, "I am going to the cinemas tonight"...

she also says... filims!!!

Remember a Smack0the-pony-esque sketch from way back where someone was moaning about people referring to Trivial Pursuits etc. I am afraid I can't recall any of the etcs but it was in the same vein.

In Scotland we happily refer to Tescos and it does not grate. DD2 used to call it Cockos.

poppyk - do you still have Willie Low's, or were they eaten up by someone bigger?

poppyknot - there was an old sketch with Helen Lederer about Trivial Pursuits, they were playing the 'genius' edition. Very funny

I wouldn't even notice tbh.
I guess it has become an excepted norm - like calling your mass your weight etc.

Willie Low's was eaten up by Tesco.

My dearly departed granny used to call it Lindsay and Low for some reason and she called the Co-op the sosh.

OOPS @ 'excepted'

I don't see why it is annoying-I always do it-I think that I add an 's' when talking about all the supermarkets. I have never given it any thought. I suppose not Waitrose as it doesn't go. It is not something that is going to worry me or give me pause for thought in the future either!

I think I do this. Never realised before now. Also say Asdas and Marks and Spencers. I think lots of people do it.

I call M&S "Emma Ness". Poncy friends think it is some designer shop.

when I met dh he called IKEA 'ik-key-yas'. doesn't now..