Plural? Please.

Some people have an irresistible and inexplicable desire to make singular words plural--especially when it comes to store names. Take, for example, Barnes and Noble...or as my hyper-plural friends would say, Barnes and Nobles. Now I realize that "Barnes" has an "s" on the end of it, but that doesn't mean that Noble is dying for one too. Or what about Parisian, the clothing store now known as Belk? Why is it that people want to call it Parisians, as if there are lots of French people inside they want to buy? And finally, J.C. Penney. So many people (including my wonderful mother) often refer to it as J.C. Penney's or just Penney's. Now, this plural morph is somewhat correct because James Cash Penney actually started this chain, so it is, technically, his store. But the truth is that most people probably spell Penney like the coin, so by calling it "Penney's" it really just comes out sounding like they're going to a place with fountains harboring pennies at the bottom.

I realize that I'm an English person and that this might be a nit-picky rant, but come on, people: English is hard enough without adding an "s" to singular words. Now that that's out of my system, I'ms goings to goes to the parks fors a walks.