There’s nothing that we like more than an engraving gone wrong.
Huge thanks go to Chris Meads of Wigan for sending us this beauty. It was spotted in the village of Much Wenlock.
Mocking Poor Grammar
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A noun that is formed from a verb and which describes an action. In English it ends in -ing, eg 'the baking of bread' and 'Smoking damages your health'.
There’s nothing that we like more than an engraving gone wrong.
Huge thanks go to Chris Meads of Wigan for sending us this beauty. It was spotted in the village of Much Wenlock.
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Comment by Ben Locker — 1st September, 2009 @ 6:58 pm