Why do people say "lets go to Tesco's" with an S on the end?
I find this to be an annoying phrase that I use myself.
Tesco isn't a person that owns the Tesco shop.
No one says "lets go to Asda's", do they?
I suppose Morrissons and Sainsburys are the correct names however...
( Herman Blume is unique, just like everyone else, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:42, 15 replies)

Let's all go to Tesco's
Where Herman buys his best clothes, la la la la, la la la la

;-)
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:45, closed)

Beat me to it!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:47, closed)

Asda's, yes..
Waitrose's no. Sounds silly. In related news, Cadbury. Cadbury's. Make your frigging mind up before you get sold to the yanks. oh.
(joe is troubled Got all married and teh stuffs, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:48, closed)

In sort of related news
When was it decided that Nestle (pronounced Nessle) would be pronounced Neslay? It was pronounced Nessle when I was a little kid as in 'Nessle's Milky Bar' and all that.

Just another reason for me to hate them.

*shakes fist at the sky*
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:06, closed)

The Swiss founders of Nestlé, presumably
The accent is a helpful giveaway.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:16, closed)

Well they got it wrong for sooooooo many years.

( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:17, closed)

I've never heard it pronounced by anyone Swiss :-(
(Although, then it would be "Neshlay")
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:31, closed)

sounds more like Sean connery

(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 16:19, closed)

is it just me
or does Asda's sound like a mong disease. It's not his fault. He has Asda's.
( Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:09, closed)

It is a name
Tesco is an abbreviation of Tessa Cohen, who was the wife of Tesco founder Jack Cohen.

The name has just been shortened over the years. But people still remember it's a persons name and call it Tesco's.

Simple.

And wholly untrue.

He didn't have a wife called Tessa.

She was called "Cohen-Cohen Cohen".

Who was a distant relation to Mrs Doyle.
( Dervel OTBC, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:15, closed)

You silly sod
I've no idea why but this has me chortling and I can't stop.
( MademoiselleDave is drunk and on the internet again on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:41, closed)

My mother is one of these people. Tescos, Asdas, Safeways (before it became Morrisons) - although for some reason Sainsburys would become Sainsbury.
(Freakmandu, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 13:56, closed)

One of my old housemates
maintained that, while he was staying in Bristol on some course, the locals went beyond referring to Asda as Asda's (which everyone round here does without exception) and actually called it Asdul's. Fucking Asdul's? That said he didn't half talk a load of old cock sometimes.
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 15:48, closed)

Its true

That's how to say Asda down 'ere.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 17:45, closed)

people do say let's go to asda's

( VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:53, closed)