Wal-Marts, singular

[Wilson Gray]

It's not _Wal-Mart's_ that the folk from home are saying? That's the
way that I interpret it when I hear my East-Texas kinfolk say it.

-Wilson

On Dec 28, 2007 3:01 PM, David Donnell <David.Donnell at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Back home in smalltown Missouri, I often hear people say, for
> example, "I'm going over to Wal-Marts." So the following CNN sentence
> baffled me for a moment:
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> http://tinyurl.com/28swh6
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> "Wal-Marts are not supposed to return opened packages to the sales floor."
>
> I immediately thought it was a typo, that they obviously meant to
> write "Wal-Marts IS not supposed to return opened packages to the
> sales floor".
>
> (You can take the boy outa the country...)
>
> DD
> Missouri-native in NYC
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