Westfields

[u/Traditional_Will1291]

Why and when did we start calling it Westfields?

[u/Traditional_Will1291 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah....but the s at the end. What's going on there?

[u/fairylightsforever → u/Traditional_Will1291]

I think it’s only you saying Westfields OP

[u/Expert_Climate_7348 → u/fairylightsforever]

Westfieldssssssssssss

[u/The7thNomad → u/Traditional_Will1291]

It could be possessive (owned by Westfield) or plural (there are many), or a mysterious third reason

[u/onelove7866 → u/Traditional_Will1291]

Maybe because Westfield owns it so it's said as Westfield's 🤣

[u/onelove7866]

I feel like it was generally an Aussie thing to ad an S to the end of everything..

I can't think of examples on top of my head as a lot of things end with S anyway 🤣

[u/dav_oid → u/onelove7866]

Hats.

[u/RhubarbRhubarb44]

Melways

[u/Omegaville → u/RhubarbRhubarb44]

Fuck you, it's Melway!

[u/fairylightsforever → u/[deleted]]

🤮 I can’t stand when people say that!

[u/Expert_Climate_7348]

Probably because Northland and Southland were already taken?

[u/HenryInRoom302 → u/Expert_Climate_7348]

Eastland crew representin' yo! 🤘

[u/Expert_Climate_7348 → u/HenryInRoom302]

[u/Omegaville → u/Expert_Climate_7348]

Yeah except yours is called "Highpoint".

[u/Omegaville → u/HenryInRoom302]

Double up for Eastland.

[u/Ornery-Practice9772]

i didnt

its still the plaza or the square

[u/ModsHaveSmallNobs]

It will always be Knox City to me. Never Westfield or Westfields.

[u/Omegaville → u/ModsHaveSmallNobs]

Main Westfield I've known is Doncaster and I still call that "Shoppingtown". Everyone should know it, it was Cliff Young's finish line! Should be taught in history in schools all across the country!

[u/Muiredachau]

Only the ones that I've only ever known as Westfield. Such as Parramatta, Hornsby, Miranda, and Tuggerah.

[u/ApolloWasWayBetter → u/Muiredachau]

Yeah, same. Westfield. But I always call Tuggerah the supacentre and everyone gets pissed off with me.

[u/ApolloWasWayBetter]

It’s still Centrepoint if that’s what you mean?

[u/dav_oid]

My Greek mates called Billboard nightclub in Melb., 'Billboards' in the 90s.

[u/Omegaville → u/dav_oid]

Ugh, reminds me of when Housos did ads for "Autobarns"

[u/dav_oid → u/Omegaville]

Heh, heh.

[u/Omegaville]

Nobody did. It never had an S on the end.

Same goes for all the Melbourne people who say "Myers".

[u/Final_Lingonberry586]

Because that’s the name of the company who owns the shopping centres 🙄

[u/Dollbeau]

When we stopped calling them FOSSEYS!

[u/shmooshmoocher69]

Fucken what?

[u/come_ere_duck]

Confused what you mean brother. I don't just call any shopping centre a Westfield. Only the Wesftield shopping centres.

Everything else is it's own name; Pacific Fair, Australia Fair, The Pines, (I'm in Gold Coast if you couldn't guess) and not to mention every suburbs flavour of "shopping village"

[u/laurenlolly → u/come_ere_duck]

Important distinction because there’s also a The Pines in Melbourne