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?

I say Tescoses. And Aldis/ Lidls. And Marksies.

Also say "Wuh-Smith."

I am clearly a bad person. :p

My dad always says he's going to Tescos, I cant help thinking, really, all of them?.

oddly enough, OP, I sometimes add an s to just about any supermarket...
but tbh, I couldn't care less if it bothers you or anyone else for that matter

slightly off topic my DH used to say what is for breakfastes?!

I wouldn't notice that... I do notice people who say 'holidays' instead of holiday. I'm going on holidays... seems odd but is quite common in Ireland. Common as in frequently said.

A dear friend of mine, who is lovely, told me that she and her husband were going to a barbecue where there would be a pig roasted on a spittle. I spat out my wine from laughing... I told her I was laughing because that sounded so marvellously decadent and she believed me. phew!

I do it too. It's entirely legit. It's short for Tesco's supermarket - the supermarket up the road that belongs to Tesco.

There's a garage in my village that's owned by Frank. we call it Frank's (ie Frank's garage). There's a sweetshop called Sue's. no different.

op - yabu!

They do it because it rhymes with 'Waitrose' - who do they think they're kidding ?

My Grandmother says "Asdas" and Boots is " Boots's. My son calls M&S "Marks and Spensives".

Oh... she says "Cwop" for the Co-op as well!

shockers
my DD calls it Marks expensive as well

chillax babe, you need to relax that cat's bum face! yabu.

chillax babe, you need to relax that cat's bum face! yabu.

oh, I do call waitrose waitroses, btw...just to make matters worse

Where I live, people often say "I'm away on my holidays". Even quite well spoken people would say that.

I also think it's legitimate to say Tesco's, but wonder why you care. So, yabu.

I used to work in a call centre and some of the staff were terrible for this sort of thing and it drove me up the wall, especially cinemas....why put an s ont he end of that???

I live in Canada so can't contribute anything meaningful to the debate (other than a chuckle), but we have a grocery chain here called Save-On Foods (rather a joke as they're quite pricey) and my very very German stepfather, in his very thick, very German accent, calls it Safe Foods. Makes me crazy. "We're going shopping at Safe Foods." That would be, ermmm, as opposed to unsafe foods?? Gah!!!

Since I'm wittering on about something no-one probably cares about, I'll just add that Save-On used to be called Overwaitea Foods - leading to stupid jokes about where the skinny people shop... but everyone called it Overwaitea's.

{grin]

I cant say whether ive noticed either myself or other people adding the extra "s"
But what does bug me is when people say THE asda, instead of just Asda.
M&S I tend to call it just Marks.
I have heard alot of people call WHSmith "Smiths"

greensleeves - no bother... but actually, that is where she comes from (as do I) - but we've moved away now (in fear of getting our heads flushed...)

Think the theory about shops named after the original proprietor might be correct. At least for me - I say 'Marks' or 'Marks and Sparks', Sainsbury's and Smith's but Asda and Tesco.

I have the voice of Gollum whispering in my ear at all the textses, Markses and Bootses... my precious.

Thought the Tessa Cohen thing was a myth.

I do know people who call Morrison's Mozzas...but in Manchester.

"Jack Cohen founded Tesco in 1919 when he began to sell surplus groceries from a stall in the East End of London.[5] The Tesco brand first appeared in 1924. The name came about after Jack Cohen bought a shipment of tea from T.E. Stockwell. He made new labels using the first three letters of the supplier's name (TES), and the first two letters of his surname (CO), forming the word "TESCO"."

My Mum won't stop calling the main character in In The Night Garden "Ickle pickle". Drives me mad. I don't know why....

Then again, we are united against the people who say "Cliff Richards"........