It's Tesco not Tescos

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

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

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 wrote: »

thats true but no apostrophe on any of their shop front

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

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!

StephenHendry wrote: »

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

You could say Centra's. There would be nothing wrong with it as Centra is an organisation that manages / operates a chain of stores.

There's no Mr Tesco either.

Tesco's name originates from two names. The guy who set it up in 1919 was Jack Cohen. He purchased a tea company called T.E. Stockwell and merged the two names.

T.E. Stockwell & Cohen became Tesco. It's now just Tesco Plc.

Since it's a company, it's a legal person, so it can own things and gets a possessive apostrophe!

gavredking wrote: »

ATM machine?

Is that where you put in your PIN number?

Solair wrote: »

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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.

what's an "eegit"?

There's also a phonetic reason. Some English speakers, particularly in Northern England don't really like words ending in vowels.

They'll turn things into plurals / possessives or even throw in intrusive "r" sounds on the end to avoid the vowel.

Tesco's
Brenda - Brenda"r"

etc etc.

French speakers also can't handle a / o at the end of words so change things.
California - Californie
Florida - Floridie
etc etc

Irish phonetics are far closer to east coast American / Canadian phonetics than English or Australian.

That might explain why English folk, particularly those from 'up north' tend to say Tescos.

Solair wrote: »

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 left school over 25 years ago and have forgotten the vast majority of stuff I learned that I haven't had to use since.
Up until just over a year ago I had no reason to write and use punctuation or worry about spelling since the day I finished my last leaving cert exam, and I have no intention of going to the trouble of re-learning all the subtlties of grammar, punctuation etc for the sake of the few pompous grammar/punctuation nazis on a forum such as this.