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Old Feb 23rd 2015, 12:38 pm
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I'm old enough to remember when Nestlé was universally referred to in the UK as "Nestles".

And pluralizing "Lego" to "Legos" is a vile abomination. The plural is also "Lego", or rather it's a word that is primarily plural: you don't "step on a Lego" you "step on a piece of Lego" or "on some Lego".
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..... you "step on a piece of Lego" or "on some Lego".
Only if you're a masochist.
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I'm old enough to remember when Nestlé was universally referred to in the UK as "Nestles".
The milky Bar Kid.


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I just posted about shopping in the other thread. We went to Walmarts :P
Hee hee. I think it was called Waltons back in the day before it was Walmarts
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Bah.
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Old Feb 23rd 2015, 1:21 pm
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This is what I miss when I don't sign in over the weekend then, is it?

Anyway, inadvertently possessivizing (new word) the names of shops isn't the most irritating thing Brits do in every day speech. No, that goes to the **** awful 'trendy' abbreviations they like to use. Things like 'rellies', 'rom com', 'spag bol'.

Bring back the ****ing stocks, I say.
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Bring back the ****ing stocks, I say.


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Old Feb 23rd 2015, 1:25 pm
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Anything to do with Oxo cubes is OK in my book
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Old Feb 23rd 2015, 1:27 pm
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Anyway, inadvertently possessivizing (new word) the names of shops isn't the most irritating thing Brits do in every day speech. No, that goes to the **** awful 'trendy' abbreviations they like to use. Things like 'rellies', 'rom com', 'spag bol'.
I always thought "rom com" was American myself. I wouldn't call "spag bol" "trendy" either, we were using it in our house back in the 80s!
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I always thought "rom com" was American myself. I wouldn't call "spag bol" "trendy" either, we were using it in our house back in the 80s!
I was using the term sarcastically.

Either way I hate it and it needs to stop.
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Originally Posted by amideislas
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If there is any tangible difference between English and "American" with respect to "pluralisation" or "possessives", I have to suspect it is likely influenced by history.

England has a much longer history of privately-owned shops and products in the namesake of it's founder. It's Witherspoon's pub, Mark's & Spencer's or whatever.

The Americans have a much shorter history of that, and perhaps more memorable for them are the larger "branded" names such as "Sears" (not "Sear's"), "Safeway", "Ford", "Hancock", "Conoco" etc.. I doubt most Americans would say they are "Going to Safeway's". But I expect Brits very well might do.
It's Wetherspoons.
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Originally Posted by amideislas
Mathematics

If there is any tangible difference between English and "American" with respect to "pluralisation" or "possessives", I have to suspect it is likely influenced by history.
Mathematics isn't a plural...

Math versus maths: How Americans and Brits deploy the collective noun.


separated by a common language: math(s)
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Originally Posted by amideislas
Mathematics

If there is any tangible difference between English and "American" with respect to "pluralisation" or "possessives", I have to suspect it is likely influenced by history.

England has a much longer history of privately-owned shops and products in the namesake of it's founder. It's Witherspoon's pub, Mark's & Spencer's or whatever.

The Americans have a much shorter history of that, and perhaps more memorable for them are the larger "branded" names such as "Sears" (not "Sear's"), "Safeway", "Ford", "Hancock", "Conoco" etc.. I doubt most Americans would say they are "Going to Safeway's". But I expect Brits very well might do.
So you didn't see the numerous American examples above. You 'doubt most Americans would say they are going to Safeway's' Well they say they are going to Ralph's, Gelson's, Trader Joe's, Albertson's and so on, so what are you actually on about with your fake history lesson?
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This is the irritation I have about the Internet. People will piss about for three pages on nonsense like this, but nobody will tell me if their supermarkets have empty shelves during snowstorms like I asked in the "winter had bypassed us" thread.
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Last year we had a "chance of snow day" from school, and then there was a bit of panic buying going on, but not really. We definitely get it ahead of hurricanes, although we haven't had one of those for 5(?)years or so.
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