LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 days agoHave you ever heard them called anything else?imagemessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down18
arrow-up198arrow-down1imageHave you ever heard them called anything else?LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square22linkfedilink
minus-squareTheEmpireStrikesDaklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·5 days agoIsn’t it more “Tesco’s”, the possessive rather than plural? In the way you’d go to your mate’s or your mum’s or Jimmy’s. I feel like we do that with shops too. I’m pretty sure I say Tesco’s and Lidl’s. Sainsbury’s has it built in.
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoTesco’s, your local pub, opened by Theodore Benjamin Tesco. I know it’s more like a habit than an actually serious thought, but I still find it rather weird, as a non-native.
minus-squarerowinxavier@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days agoOK, after decades on this Earth I had never considered it could be the posessive, ha, yes, that seems likely.
Isn’t it more “Tesco’s”, the possessive rather than plural? In the way you’d go to your mate’s or your mum’s or Jimmy’s. I feel like we do that with shops too. I’m pretty sure I say Tesco’s and Lidl’s. Sainsbury’s has it built in.
Tesco’s, your local pub, opened by Theodore Benjamin Tesco.
I know it’s more like a habit than an actually serious thought, but I still find it rather weird, as a non-native.
OK, after decades on this Earth I had never considered it could be the posessive, ha, yes, that seems likely.