Comments on: ParenT’s

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:24:00 +0000

If only such errors were limited to the elderly, Michelle! Sadly, the same sign could easily have been produced by one of my teenage students.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:37:00 +0000

I really hope this sign isn’t from a school!

By: turtle

turtle — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:47:00 +0000

i like your blog. funny. informative.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:43:00 +0000

Wow. To know there are people who produce such vomit inducing specimens makes me very sad.

By: AliHartnett

AliHartnett — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:58:00 +0000

Another deliberate mistake, perhaps: The sign does not have quotation marks used for emphasis, rather parentheses. Good find!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:15:00 +0000

This is a true shocker, but the newsletter my kids bring back from their primary school is getting close.

The most upsetting (well, you know what I mean...) example was in last week's (inappropriately named) Literacy update which thanked "all the hero's who helped with their childs' reading this week", adding (after a splice comma) "keep it up".

Yeah, thanks. I'll leave it to the expert's (sic).

By: Michelle Wood

Michelle Wood — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:53:00 +0000

Old people do this a LOT..... In my building, there's an old guy who is forever trying to unload stuff in his place, and he posts notices advsing fellow tenants of a

"Big" Furniture Sale!
All items must "GO"!
Entertainment unit $500 "O.B.O"

By: Gez

Gez — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:30:00 +0000

Well done, Clive. You spotted my deliberate mistake and earned yourself 14 GrammarBlog points (the shiny variety). Further points are available to anyone who chooses to swallow the “deliberate mistake” explanation over the “hasty and careless” alternative.

By: Clive

Clive — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:54:00 +0000

"Motherload"?

"Mother lode", surely?

--c.

By: Martin Magnusson

Martin Magnusson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:46:00 +0000

Wow. Wow, wow, wow.

Wow.