People that still call the Premier League the 'Premiership'

[Lord Bracknell]

I agree with that, a 'gin and tonic' is a set drink, and is more like one entity, so asking for two would make it two "gin and tonic"s?

Also wouldn't asking for two gins and tonic result in you being given two measures of gin and some tonic?

This confusing scenario can easily be avoided by eschewing gin and asking for malt whisky. "A The Macallan, please" is the correct form for such a request, remembering that the "a" in "A The Macallan" is lower case.

 

[seagullondon]

I still call my girlfriend mum

 

[Gazwag]

It really pisses me off. It was renamed in 2007, get with the programme. IRS a bit like still calling the Carling Cup the Milk Cup....

I suppose if you have a premiership club as well it must upset you, proper fans have one club, and mine is a championship club, at the moment.

And what have the Amercian Tax Authorities got to do with it

 

[sten_super]

Wow your ignorance continues. You know nothing AND are willing to rely on incorrect wikipedia info to illustrate it & mislead everyone!?
Associated Dairies was a huge UK wide company that BOUGHT OUT a mini 3 shop company branded Queens (owned by Asquith) & expanded using shortened Associated DairieS name for the shops
Academic, you are not

*snigger*
Asda through the years - a story of innovation and saving you money

In 1965 Associated Dairies and Asquiths did a deal to merge and create Asda Stores Ltd – the name being a marriage of the two parties: Asquith + Dairies. The new company bought the GEM chain in 1965, relaunching the stores in the Asda Queen’s name.

After Associated Dairies bought out the Asquith Brothers in 1968 the Asda name was owned by just one company.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Never noticed it had changed, still we wouldn't notice down here in Div 2 would we?

 

[NMH]

I like to think to the future - so I call it the Samsung League, we are of course in the Apple Mac i-League, above the Sony, and then the Mitsubishi division.

Come on, keep up!

 

[clapham_gull]

Wow your ignorance continues. You know nothing AND are willing to rely on incorrect wikipedia info to illustrate it & mislead everyone!?
Associated Dairies was a huge UK wide company that BOUGHT OUT a mini 3 shop company branded Queens (owned by Asquith) & expanded using shortened Associated DairieS name for the shops
Academic, you are not

I got it from the ASDAS website....

In 1965 Associated Dairies and Asquiths did a deal to merge and create Asda Stores Ltd – the name being a marriage of the two parties: Asquith + Dairies. The new company bought the GEM chain in 1965, relaunching the stores in the Asda Queen’s name.

After Associated Dairies bought out the Asquith Brothers in 1968 the Asda name was owned by just one company.

You are obviously getting confused because the Asquiths Brothers were bought out.

 

[DanielT]

fed up with this naming correctness, i am off to book my holiday to Constantinople

 

[pork pie]

It really pisses me off. It was renamed in 2007, get with the programme. IRS a bit like still calling the Carling Cup the Milk Cup....

What really pisses me off is when some people moan about trivia. Get a life mate!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I hadn't noticed it had changed but then I don't take much notice of the Prem.

 

[strings]

If Asda disn't want to be called 'Asdas', they wouldn't have bought the domain name and made it forward to their website:

www.asdas.co.uk















*lights touchpaper and runs away*

 

[SK1NT]

What are the new names to these old branded products:

Olivio
Oil of Ulay
Jif
Premiership

 

[strings]

Anyway, I'm off to gorge myself on Opal Fruits and a Marathon Bar.

 

[keaton]

Surely the latter makes more sense though.

The first is like saying 'I want two Gins. And some tonic'. Where as the second makes 'Gin and Tonic' a noun, which I'd like two of. I expect I'm wrong though. Though's.

It does make far more sense. But the rules are that it's the other way around. That's when I started think grammar was f***ing stupid sometimes