Date:  Fri, 13 May 1994 08:14:38 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: genitive in names of businesses



>> >Tim

>> Also, in Michigan, many people say 'Kmart's' or 'Walmart's'. But this seems

>> to be somewhat different since the person who owns the business isn't named

>> Kmart or Walmart (cf. Kroger).

>

>But it is like "Eagle's." Maybe this is everywhere, since a major

>dialect boundary separates Michigan and central Ill.



To the horror of my native wife, older women that she knows in middle

Georgia say "Kmart's" and "Walmart's." However, there seems to be no

stigma attached to "J. C. Penney's" and "Belk's" for "J. C. Penney" and

"Belk."





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu