Companies or business that are better known by the wrong name

[johnnystorm]

We were out & about today and as we drove past a certain paint store, I remarked that it was "SHERMAN WILLIAMS" instead of the proper "Sherwin Williams".
Aside from nicknames like Wally World, Mickey D's, Monkey Wards, can you think of other places that are commonly misnamed?

I also had a friend who repeatedly called Woolworth's store "Werewolf's", which I always liked better.

[neogelion]

Awful house

[Brazoo]

I guess I hear that most when companies change their name. Like when people refer to the old name, like Apple Computers or Kentucky Fried Chicken.

In Toronto the entrance to CNE (Canadian Nation Exhibition) is a landmark called The Princes' Gate, but nearly everyone incorrectly calls it The Princess Gate. I guess, because Princes sounds like Princess and there is also a statue of a woman on top of it.

[Mikey]

Hoffmann la Roche = Hoffman and the roach

Poulan = usually pronounced Pow-lan

[johnnystorm]

My daughter misheard Kentucky so she used to say Freaky Fried Chicken, which stuck in our family

[spacecaps]

We call Boscovs, Boscoes.

Back in the day my parents always took us to eat at Steak & Al's, never Steak and Ale and my grandmother shopped at K-Mark.

[LordMudd]

When I was in the army, a Sgt had a 2 year old that was just learning to talk and would say ops instead of oops, so everyone started saying ops, which degenerated into opsec, the abbreviation for operations security, which promptly freaked out the First Sgt because he thought there was something going on he didn't know about.

CCC.

[Boshek]

Weis Market = Weiseze
Kmart = Kmarts

[jwyblejr]

Back in the 80s,the teenagers in my school would call Chuck E. Cheese by a different first name.

[samurainoir]

I guess I hear that most when companies change their name. Like when people refer to the old name, like Apple Computers or Kentucky Fried Chicken.

In Toronto the entrance to CNE (Canadian Nation Exhibition) is a landmark called The Princes' Gate, but nearly everyone incorrectly calls it The Princess Gate. I guess, because Princes sounds like Princess and there is also a statue of a woman on top of it.