HumanTon
3246
You mean, “Are they national SOCIALISTS?”
If anyone needs help decoding the numerous extremely insidious dog whistles being used in this thread by purebreed supremacists, please check out the resources available from the ASPCA.
I know a guy who has seen CHAMP’s papers! Know where he was born? Yep, KENYA!
Trump definitely would have pronounced it to sound like ‘majors,’ right?
KevinC
3250
He probably would have pronounced it “Mugburders” in one of his mini-stroke moments.
Scuzz
3251
So I guess it is pronounced “meyers”. We don’t have any of them stores around here.
RichVR
3252
If it’s pronounced ‘meyers’ Trump would say something about jews as well. No filter.
It is pronounced My-yur. No “s”. I used to pronounce it Meejurs" just to piss off Michigan natives.
Zylon
3254
Right? It’s not even about Biden’s pronunciation, it’s about him pluralizing it.
Heck, half the people I know refer to Aldi as “Aldis”.
ShivaX
3256
It a Midwestern/Southern thing. If a store name is like… a name, people tend to pluralize it.
Which is whatever, it’s a dialect/regional thing. Like calling a soft drink: pop, soda or “Coke” (though that last one is stupid, come on Southerners it isn’t Kleenex a Sprite and a Pepsi aren’t a Coke).
Expecting someone from Delaware to do is stupid. It’s not like he goes there or anything.
It’s not pluralising, it’s possessive. It’s extremely common in English. Eg UK supermarket chain J Sainsbury, always referred to (and now officially called) Sainsbury’s.
ShivaX
3258
Yeah, I don’t know why I said pluralize when I mean possessive.
It probably goes back to when people actually knew the owners. You went to Kroger’s because Kroger owned it. To be fair, they used to actually name things that way. Now everything is just the name.
Theisen’s is at least keeping it real.
I go to Meijer once a week at least and still pronounce it with an S. It is Hank Meijer’s store.
Fun fact. If you ask someone who works on the line at Ford Motor, where do you work? Many times you will hear, “I work for Fords”, short for “I work for THE Fords”.
Zylon
3260
Yes but sometimes no. The drugstore chain founded by Charles Walgreen, for example, is officially called Walgreens, no apostrophe.
Some other examples: Popeyes Or Popeye’s? JCPenney Or J.C. Penney? Do You Know The Proper Names Of These Companies? – Consumerist
Sure, but that’s still possessive, it just doesn’t have an apostrophe (kind of the opposite phenomenon of the greengrocer’s apostrophe). Same for eg Wm Morrison aka Morrisons here. I forget what the linguistic term is, but there’s an implicit “store” or “restaurant” or similar.
Ephraim
3262
This is what happened in Quebec after the first language laws restricting English on signs passed. All the apostrophes disappeared, and what used to be possessive suddenly looked plural because they all just left the s tacked on.
Here in L.A. the major grocery chain is Ralphs. I always figured it was founded by a guy named Ralph and thought of it as ‘Ralph’s,’ but apparently it was actually founded by a man named George Ralphs!
So the two biggest outrages in the media thread, are making fun of the Trumper’s idiotic attack on the Biden dogs, and a grammar dispute. Geez P&R is getting as boring as Biden.
I hear the forum has discussion of games, movies and TV shows, I guess I should check those out.
Nesrie
3265
Well January gave of an attempt to overthrow by people who refuse to accept voting, and February has given us a energy crisis in the energy state. I say just wait about a week and a half, March is sure to throw us another curveball. It seems like 2021 really thinks it’s time to up the ante.
