For example: "I'm going to Walmarts."
I've notice the same thing for Target, and virtually any other major store.
Some stores do have an S at the end, Dominick's, Walgreens, Papa John's Pizza etc. So I wonder if its some psychological need to standardize.
2006-08-28 02:19:11 · 11 answers · asked by Dizazter 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
And yes, I forgot to mention it, but I do realize it might be people turning it into a possesive, like thinking of it as Walmart's Store.
2006-08-28 02:28:48 · update #1
walmarts.
possessive or ownership,
not plural
that is Mike's bike.
possessive.
I am going to walmart's store.
same thing. possessive.
2006-08-28 02:24:46 · answer #1 · answered by digital genius 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard that. Maybe it's a local thing. I am curious now. Where do you live?
I live in Chicago, and I've never heard that or felt the urge to say anything like that. But I have friends from Atlanta who say "the onliest" when they want to say "the only", and they are both educated, so it's not their bad grammar. When I lived in OH, it drove me crazy that people said "where's my coat at?" or "have you ate".
I guess the added S must be a local thing.
2006-08-28 10:13:11 · answer #2 · answered by jimbell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe those are the same people that say things like:
Le me axe yo a quession bout da hood. Duz its gots a walmarts?
2006-08-28 09:35:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think because when you go to someone's house you say "I am going to Patrick's," and a lot of people aren't that well-spoken so it just transfers to businesses for some reason. Honestly, I don't know.
2006-08-28 09:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by keiko 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard anyone do that! If they do where you come from, it could be a lowbrow need to standardise. Or just that they don't care enough about labels to make the effort to be correct.
2006-08-28 09:22:52 · answer #5 · answered by Myrna B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It sou nds more like s\changing it into the possessive form.Hecht's Bloomingdale's. Or the people are just ignorant.
2006-08-28 09:49:37 · answer #6 · answered by howlettlogan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, an old friend of mine used to say Barnes and Nobles and I would always make fun of her. (all in good nature)
2006-08-28 09:25:05 · answer #7 · answered by aloneinga 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would never say I was going to "Wal-marts". That doesn't sound right to me.
2006-08-28 09:23:07 · answer #8 · answered by MoMattTexas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they lack adequate edumacation. No other reason.
2006-08-28 09:25:22 · answer #9 · answered by TheDude 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They don't say that unless they are strange.
2006-08-28 09:25:46 · answer #10 · answered by Joey 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋