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More consistent than people sticking an apostrophe S on the end of supermarket names, so you get things like Tesco's and Asda's, when the only correct usage of that S is "Asda's own tin of peas" (for example). It seems to be lost that Sainsbury's only gets an apostrophe s because the company's named after its founders...

If that annoys you, I advise you never to live on Merseyside where it's 'the Asda' and we still say 'Home and Bargain'

And Morrisons should have an apostrophe for the same reason but doesn't.

Always been Tescos around here but never Asdas. Co-op was the Quorp for years too but that seems to have fallen out of favour.

I think "The Asda" is more Liverpool don't say it as much on the Wirral but it will always be Home and Bargain round here as that's what it started off as.

I assume Lidl is pronounced Lee-dill in Northern Ireland because Lid-ill sounds similar to little in a Northern Irish accent.

It most certainly is I can confirm

Conveniently, it's also a lot closer to the original German pronunciation.

It's like people dropping the 'The' from the start of 'The Co-Op' and 'The BBC'

Really annoys me

It may be a local thing, but in the North East the Co-Op was always just known as “the store”. Even if you had several stores/supermarkets in your home village, everyone knew what “the store” meant!

I had a job interview at Lidl about 15 years ago, and they pronounced it Lead-all...

Is that lead as in the metal, or lead is in what a dog wears? 😎