It's Tesco not Tescos

wil · 09-09-2011 09:38PM

Yahew wrote: »

Lol. I have a 6 figure salary in London..

Is that after tips?:cool:

Sunnyisland · 09-09-2011 09:44PM

pickarooney wrote: »

You reckon Anto is pining for a lost philological tense to best encapsulate his sense of existential ennui when he seen Deco down the market?

Dont know but deco want to have a word with anto about his sense

09-09-2011 09:55PM

Taytos, Lidls, Aldis, heard all those in Kerry. Not limited to Tesco by any means.

Namlub · 09-09-2011 09:56PM

Karsini wrote: »

Taytos, Lidls, Aldis, heard all those in Kerry. Not limited to Tesco by any means.

It's weirder to just call them Tayto tbh

Liam Byrne · 09-09-2011 09:59PM

realies wrote: »

So and this is not personnel .....

Well the personnel involved appear to be taking it personally......

yogi beer · 09-09-2011 10:04PM

I would assume it comes from where it first originated. Tesco would have been a small, local shop owned by bob tesco, so I would speculate people would say "I'm going down to Tescos", as in "Tesco's shop"

Solair · 09-09-2011 10:21PM

yogi beer wrote: »

I would assume it comes from where it first originated. Tesco would have been a small, local shop owned by bob tesco, so I would speculate people would say "I'm going down to Tescos", as in "Tesco's shop"

Except that there was never any Mr Tesco. It's a combination of two words.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesco

Oleg Luzhny · 09-09-2011 10:31PM

My aunt pronounces Lidl as Lie-dees for some reason.

Big Ears · 09-09-2011 10:43PM

Yahew wrote: »

Wrong. The general rule in English is to add an s to a plural. The difference is when there are latin or greek roots to the word. Thats all.

The plural of datum is data. Not datas. We use the Latin plural here, historically. For new words English rules generally apply.

The plural of Forum is - using standard English - Forums. The Latin form of that is Fora, but we are not speaking Latin and Latin rules in general do not have to apply, but do sometimes for historical reasons. English speakers also used to use German plurals too - like er and en. ( The plural of Child getting a double germanic plural like childeren. But we dont now).

This is not relevant to Euro, which is a modern world like iPhone ( the plural of which is iPhones).

Some Eurocrat decided that the plural or Euro was Euro. I can guarantee if the UK had joined the Euro ( they never will now) they would have laughed at such nonsense.

What about 'sheep' ?

FlutterinBantam · 09-09-2011 10:47PM

latenia wrote: »

The use of seen instead of saw is understandable given the absence of an aorist tense in English. While I wouldn't advise using it on an official document like a CV, it does lend a different nuance to conversational speech.
For example, if someone said "I seen Jimmy on Grafton St yesterday" I'd take it that they caught sight of him briefly rather than stopped to chat with him or knew anything about what he was up to.

Eh..no, not a runner my good man, not a runner.:rolleyes:

Liam Byrne · 09-09-2011 10:52PM

TweetMe!?! wrote: »

My aunt pronounces Lidl as Lie-dees for some reason.

Marty Whelan pronounces it "Liddel" and feels the compulsion to bracket it with the words "Every" and "Helps" when promoting that German chain in ads.

Carawaystick · 09-09-2011 11:31PM

FlutterinBantam wrote:

Tell me why you don't use it yourself, if you are so sure it is correct usage.?

Is that a full stop between usage and the question mark? So the question sentence has no mark but the empty sentence has a mark, what sort of class of grammar nazi makes those mistakes?

Anyhoo, it's Tescos because it used to be either Quinnsworths or Crazy Prices

languagenerd · 09-09-2011 11:51PM

This thread made me realise that I say "Tesco" (no extra s) but always say "Easons". Very inconsistent, I am...

Maybe it's because we're used to Dunnes and Penneys being the main chain stores here, we feel the need to add "s"s to everything! (also, Roche's Stores used to be fairly widespread here and they're now Debenhams... and there's Shaws too)

Oh, and a weird one - Jones Soda - practically everyone calls it "Joneses". (I worked in a shop that sold it a couple of years ago and people would always ask "Have you any Joneses left?")

4leto · 10-09-2011 12:01AM

I say Tesco's, but I also say Superquinn's and Marks and Spencer's

I think I add an "s" to most of them.

What difference does it make I still hate shopping.

realdanbreen · 10-09-2011 12:10AM

What about taking the car for an NCT test?
Also I find the oul wans that work in Superquins have a bit of an opinion about themselves,the ones in the checkouts in Dunnes just talk away among themselves whereas the Leedel ones usualy have a smile and a bit of manners.

dsmythy · 10-09-2011 12:40AM

Yahew wrote: »

Lol. I have a 6 figure salary in London.

I have a summer house in the Hamptons. I'll leave you to figure out my salary on the back of that haw haw

bob the bob · 10-09-2011 07:51AM

Some Eurocrat decided that the plural or Euro was Euro. I can guarantee if the UK had joined the Euro ( they never will now) they would have laughed at such nonsense.

This used to be correct. Not so any more
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_issues_concerning_the_euro

booboo88 · 10-09-2011 08:17AM

the little things that bother you :P

mikemac · 10-09-2011 08:58AM

Marks and Sparks

Jesus Wept · 10-09-2011 09:03AM

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.

It's not comparable.

Eason was called and is also known as Eason & Son. It was obviously either someone's name or made to look like someone's name.

The company's current slogan is "Whatever you're into, get into Eason", replacing the previous slogan "So many reasons to shop at Eason's".

4leto · 10-09-2011 09:04AM

A funny thread,
Also interesting do you know someone here has a 6 figure salary job in London,,WOW

I wonder is he including 2 decimal places,

Killer Pigeon · 10-09-2011 09:17AM

Nobody means "Tescos". What they're actually saying is "Tesco's".

booboo88 · 10-09-2011 09:27AM

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Nobody means "Tescos". What they're actually saying is "Tesco's".

maybe they should verbally use punctuation

Jesus Wept · 10-09-2011 10:25AM

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

Nobody means "Tescos". What they're actually saying is "Tesco's".

Doesn't make any more sense though.

Cú Giobach · 10-09-2011 10:35AM

booboo88 wrote: »

maybe they should verbally use punctuation

I apostrophy m waiting on a delivery from Tesco apostrophy s at the moment but they apostrophy re late comma as usual full stop Damm them exclamation mark Arggg full stop full stop full stop full stop

booboo88 · 10-09-2011 10:37AM

Cú Giobach wrote: »

I apostrophy m waiting on a delivery from Tesco apostrophy s at the moment but they apostrophy re late comma as usual full stop Damm them exclamation mark Arggg full stop full stop full stop full stop

I certainly think should clear everything up full stop

10-09-2011 11:12AM

It was only 10 years ago that I realized there was no R in Chicago. Saying it without one makes me feel like I've a speech impediment.

Liam Byrne · 10-09-2011 12:10PM

realdanbreen wrote: »

What about taking the car for an NCT test?

I presume you're referring to the fact that the above phrase means "National Car Test Test", like "Personal Identification Number Number" and "Allied Irish Bank Bank" ?

Those are FAR more incorrect than the possessive 's at the end of Tesco.

booboo88 · 10-09-2011 12:12PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It was only 10 years ago that I realized there was no R in Chicago. Saying it without one makes me feel like I've a speech impediment.

I feel like I've just had an epihany with that revelation:o;)

It's Tesco not Tescos

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