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December 4th, 2005

The Possessive Store

One thing that I find common to people in Chicago is something I find really charming: we make every store name a possessive noun. For instance, you’re not going to “Jewel”. You’re going to “Jewel’s”.

I really haven’t experienced this much elsewhere (outside of the upper midwest, anyway) and it’s definitely something that garnered a few quizzical stares when we lived in Denver. “You’re going to Safeway’s?”

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