It's Tesco not Tescos

Scanlas The 2nd

Why do people refer to Tesco as Tescos? Why throw on an extra s?

number10a

Loads of English people do it, so I assume over here it's mainly either people who lived in England/are English/watch far too much English TV.

Nothing can be as bad as hearing people call Lidl Lie-del. :mad:

jonnyfingers

Tesco's a great supermarket.

Azureus

Tempted to sing Billie Piper songs, but Id only irritate myself.

Because we want to: who cares?

listermint

Why Scanlas and not Scanla ???

weiland79

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Why do people refer to Tesco as Tescos? Why throw on an extra s?

Yawn!

Lemsiper

Because you're a Brown Windsor.

Andromeda_111

A bit like Euro, Euros......silly really

Scanlas The 2nd

weiland79 wrote: »

Yawn!

Waddle on then.

Snakeblood

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Why do people refer to Tesco as Tescos? Why throw on an extra s?

Take it up with Bob Tesco.

Shane-KornSpace

Also, it's not Santy Claus! It's Santa!!

MagicSean

It's a form of passive aggressive revolution.

Dun

I think nearly everybody - well, at least everybody I've heard talking about it - call it "Easons" rather than "Eason", no complaints for that one I'd reckon.

kfallon

Jaysus if that's all you have to be worrying about you must have some life OP!

Most of us have more important things to be concerning ourselves with like do I take this dump in work or bake it for another 45 mins and have it in the luxury of my own jax where I can push, pant and fart how I please without having to worry about putting anybody else off their sphincter relaxtions and contractions :pac:

Duggy747

TESCOS

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:pac:

Hurricane-Dean

Shane-KornSpace wrote: »

Also, it's not Santy Claus! It's Santa!!

It's actually Santa Claus, or more preferably Saint Nicholas

number10a

Dun wrote: »

I think nearly everybody - well, at least everybody I've heard talking about it - call it "Easons" rather than "Eason", no complaints for that one I'd reckon.

Well that's a surname so I suppose it's a bit different. They've even given into it themselves on their web address. It's easons.com - though probably because eason.com was already taken. :rolleyes:

chopperbyrne

Dun wrote: »

I think nearly everybody - well, at least everybody I've heard talking about it - call it "Easons" rather than "Eason", no complaints for that one I'd reckon.

That annoys me just as much as the Tesco one.

Stench Blossoms

Because Mary worked in Tescosssss

The J Stands for Jay

kfallon wrote: »

Jaysus if that's all you have to be worrying about you must have some life OP!

Most of us have more important things to be concerning ourselves with like do I take this dump in work or bake it for another 45 mins and have it in the luxury of my own jax where I can push, pant and fart how I please without having to worry about putting anybody else off their sphincter relaxtions and contractions :pac:

In these recessionary times, all dumps should be taken in the office

J. Marston

I say Tescos.

chin_grin

Same thing irks me about "Easons". It's Eason.

therecklessone

Tescos, Aldis, Lidls, Dunness, Superquinns, Supervalus, Centras.

GavRedKing

ATM machine?

stovelid

It's something I've never really thought about.

With good reason.

Dangerous Man

kfallon wrote: »

Jaysus if that's all you have to be worrying about you must have some life OP!

Most of us have more important things to be concerning ourselves with like do I take this dump in work or bake it for another 45 mins and have it in the luxury of my own jax where I can push, pant and fart how I please without having to worry about putting anybody else off their sphincter relaxtions and contractions :pac:

Finally - someone is willing to talk about this. Cubicles these days are awful things - made of particleboard, gaps in-between the door and frame. Shoddy and certainly not conducive to dropping the kids off. It's a disgrace Joe.

mikemac

number10a wrote: »

Nothing can be as bad as hearing people call Lidl Lie-del. :mad:

Educate us so
What is the correct way?

Chuck Stone

Pratt.

Maurice Pratt insisited that an 's' be put at the end of Tescos in Oireland when he sold the Quinnsworths chain to the Tescos family some time back.

jonnyfingers

Dangerous Man wrote: »

Finally - someone is willing to talk about this. Cubicles these days are awful things - made of particleboard, gaps in-between the door and frame. Shoddy and certainly not conducive to dropping the kids off. It's a disgrace Joe.

I agree. I was just in the US and every cubicle door had about an inch of a gap all around it. Anyone could look in. Not good if you're a nervous pooer.

darkmaster2

im not german so I call it lie-del. and will continue to do so.

some days I will call it liddle

tough titties. hehe

mikemac wrote: »

number10a wrote: »

Nothing can be as bad as hearing people call Lidl Lie-del. :mad:

Educate us so
What is the correct way?

hooradiation

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Why do people refer to Tesco as Tescos? Why throw on an extra s?

Because it's actually "Tesco's" as in "the store that is owned by Tesco" but we have no way to pronounce the apostrophe and then that carries over into the written word.

It's not difficult.

Chuck Stone

mikemac wrote: »

Educate us so
What is the correct way?

'Lee dill' is the correct way but I couldn't care less how people pronounce it personally.

SV

I use Superquinns anyway so it doesn't bother me.

Wertz

Always took it as being Tesco's...as in it's Tesco's store.
"I'm going to Tesco's"

Apostrophes: every little helps.


[edit] Hooradiation beat me to it

StephenHendry

maybe people should refer to dunnes store as dunne stores
(or done stores if are of that persuasion )

Son Of A Vidic

It's Tesco not Tescos.

A bit like......No Shít! as opposed to.....Who gives a shít!

MagicMarker

ARGOST

Cú Giobach

If you were going to the bar owned by John Murphy you would go to Murphy's pup or for short Murphy's, same for Mr Dunne's shop.
Tesco seems like a name so it's natural to call it Tesco's, ie Mr Tesco's store.
That's why we don't call Centra Centra's. Easy.

I know there is no Mr Tesco.

Miguel_Sanchez

You don't get this problem with Dunne's Stores's anyway's.

Plazaman

Cú Giobach wrote: »

If you were going to the bar owned by John Murphy you would go to Murphy's pup or for short Murphy's, same for Mr Dunne's shop.
Tesco seems like a name so it's natural to call it Tesco's, ie Mr Tesco's store.
That's why we don't call Centra Centra's. Easy.

I know there is no Mr Tesco.

:eek: Then who posts me all those wonderful letters with coupons for feminine hygiene products even though I'm the wrong sex to use them but feel obliged to buy them anyway for fear of upsetting Mr Tesco.

darkmaster2

tayto's. because there is a mr tayto.

Cú Giobach wrote: »

If you were going to the bar owned by John Murphy you would go to Murphy's pup or for short Murphy's, same for Mr Dunne's shop.
Tesco seems like a name so it's natural to call it Tesco's, ie Mr Tesco's store.
That's why we don't call Centra Centra's. Easy.

[SIZE="1"]I know there is no Mr Tesco.[/SIZE]

StephenHendry

Jeff_LebowskiYou don't get this problem with Dunne's Stores's anyway's.

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thats true but no apostrophe on any of their shop front

StephenHendry

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cú Giobach
If you were going to the bar owned by John Murphy you would go to Murphy's pup or for short Murphy's, same for Mr Dunne's shop.
Tesco seems like a name so it's natural to call it Tesco's, ie Mr Tesco's store.
That's why we don't call Centra Centra's. Easy.

I know there is no Mr Tesco.

yeah the same goes for Spar , we don't say we are going to Spar's shop

Big Nasty

I'll have two Jamesons please!

Miguel_Sanchez

StephenHendry wrote: »

thats true but no apostrophe on any of their shop front

Yes I do believe that you may have missed the joke.

TheZohanS

Another poor peoples thread...how quaint.

Solair

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

You don't get this problem with Dunne's Stores's anyway's.

It's Dunnes' Stores



When people say "Tesco's" they mean that it's the supermarket belonging to Tesco.

So, Tesco's is perfectly acceptable!

It's rather simple!

The 's for possessive in English originated from the Old English usage of the genitive "of" case to indicate possession. The genitive form of most nouns ended in "es" so, that got shortened to 's. Modern English drastically simplified the genitive case. We just mark it with the 's setup.

Rules:

Noun ending in anything other than s : add 's. e.g. The boat's sail.
Noun ending in s (i.e. plurals) - add an ' after the s. e.g. : The phones' keys.


I don't know why people seem to feel the need to just throw in apostrophes everywhere there's an "s"

Possible confusion.

The contraction of the verb "to be"

E.g. She is - She's, He is - She's ... there is - there's etc etc etc

They gave up teaching grammar in school in English speaking countries years ago which is why most of us can't seem to write properly anymore!

It's worth learning the apostrophe rules and a few other basics though as they're not very complicated. Constantly making mistakes with them makes you look like a feckin' eegit too.

I've noticed in university work that Irish and British students have terrible grammar and spelling when compared to US students. I think it's down to the fact that Americans still study the mechanics of language at school in English classes. Where as in Ireland and the UK we seem to have adopted a kind of crazy assumption that you just figure this stuff out on your own.

It's absolutely amazing that people make mistakes like this on signs! It's forgivable in rushed typing on an internet forum, but if you're going to have a sign printed up and made, you'd think that you'd check the spelling!

ScumLord

jonnyfingers wrote: »

I agree. I was just in the US and every cubicle door had about an inch of a gap all around it. Anyone could look in. Not good if you're a nervous pooer.

The nerves might make you shit yourself so it's win win.

CaSCaDe711

Cú Giobach wrote: »

If you were going to the bar owned by John Murphy you would go to Murphy's pup or for short Murphy's, same for Mr Dunne's shop.
Tesco seems like a name so it's natural to call it Tesco's, ie Mr Tesco's store.
That's why we don't call Centra Centra's. Easy.

I know there is no Mr Tesco.

Mr Tesco

tfitzgerald

gavredking wrote: »

ATM machine?

I prefer hole in the wall

ejmaztec

It never happens with Tesco Express.