• Raebxeh
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          5 months ago

          For some reason, pluralization of singular brands is a thing depending on your dialect of English. I won’t state the regions because I don’t wanna accidentally narrow down where someone lives. Although I guess referencing Aldi already does that a bit.

          • ValpoYAFF [comrade/them]
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            5 months ago

            It's actually not plural, but rather possessive.

            It's an example (I think) of a snowclone.

            • Raebxeh
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              5 months ago

              You’re definitely right about the possessive thing. I’m not sure about the snow clone. I always thought of it like they were treating the name of the store like the last name of the family who owns it. So it’s like a shortening of, “we’re going down to the Aldi’s store.” As if you’d walk in and Mr. Aldi would be behind the counter.

          • keepcarrot [she/her]
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            5 months ago

            Here in Australia its pretty common.

            Aldi's

            Nando's

            Domino's

            McDonald's

            Hungry Jack's

            Woolies?

            Coles?

            ...

            Others, I'm sure. Where do Australians go? Bottle-o always sounded very sing song in a Tolkien sort of way. There's a kebab place we call "Ararat's", but I don't remember the official name. I sometimes remove the possessive/plural to sound funny (bunning)