June 2008
A Hole New World
Sometimes spelling errors can initiate fairly sinister thoughts. I don't think I want to know who the 'Hole Family' are, but clearly they'd enjoy themselves at Cha Cha's.Thanks to Noah Tarnow, who saw ...
See what you say: premisis
I came across this in the car park of a public house on the picturesque A57 'Snake Pass' route, which crosses the Peak District and connects the cities of Manchester and Sheffield.It always amusis me when someone abusis spelling in such an obvious way, and ...
Electronic’S - R - US
Electronic'S - R - US, originally uploaded by Dan of Future's Past. ...
‘Do you want salt and crazy grammar on the chips?’
This magnificently insane comma usage was discovered upon my most recent trip to Windy Harbour, my local chippy in south Manchester. I can't fault their heavenly chips or their wonderfully crisp battered cod, but what possessed them here? As if this scatterbrain punctuation wasn't enough, ...
Grammar Abuse in Signage: Part 18
I was out for a quiet coffee with my wife over the weekend and, as I headed to the counter to pay for our drinks, I was met with ...
Grammar Abuse in Signage: Part 17
A couple of lovely signage atrocities to brighten up your Sunday drudge.I'm a huge fan of this mess – sent to us by Martin Greenberger of Westchester, California. Aside from the moronic spelling, ...
Bog basics
Public toilets may well be the sordid stomping ground of sexual predators, but that's no excuse for bad grammar.Brian De Groodt, who found us via our mention in the Wall Street Journal, ...
Reuters says employs bad internet freelance journalists
There's a peculiar, mangled use of the present tense in journalism, apparently for the purpose of conveying immediacy. It also seems to go hand-in-hand with an aversion to pronouns. When used cleverly it can often make for snappy, memorable headlines; when deployed by a moron, it boggles brains....
Unelectable
When people speak of unelectable leaders or political parties, many refer to Michael Foot’s Labour Party and its relatively sensible manifesto for the 1983 UK general election. But from now on, whenever I think about what might make someone unelectable, I will think of this monstrosity: ...
Delicattesen
Sign of failure, originally uploaded by emmastory. Here we have another missing accent combined with a superfluous ...
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