Rants, Spelling, wrong word
Well… I am in a hurry.
Is the abuse of a foreign language in an English setting as unforgivable as abuse of the English language itself? This curmudgeon says "yes". Well... I am in a hurry., originally ...
Grave errors
In GrammarBlog's view, you can't put a price on good spelling. But it seems some people do precisely that. This has been brought to my attention by the opening scene of a new episode ('Black Swan') from the fine seventh series of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David visits his mother's grave ...
Death and Tayes
As Mel and Kim so profoundly put it, "Tay-tay, tay-tay t-t-t-t-t tay-tay." Quite what they meant is anyone's guess but it must have struck a chord with the Sky news vidi printer operator who made this typo. Thanks to @gill_Edwards for ...
Becon sandwich
I was at a fireworks display the other week and felt ruddy bloody starving. Needless to say, I steered clear of this van. Look out for it visiting a fun fair near you.
Free cash with Texan accents inside!
And that's the spelling mishaps, not to mention the Needless Capitalisation, for now.
STOR! In the Name of Love
Reasons Why Regional Newspapers Must Never Die, Vol. 1: This heartwarming tale of youth power from the Manchester Evening News... Schoolboy spots street sign blunder A SCHOOLBOY fears spelling is on the road to ruin after a street sign blunder. Adam Gant, 11, spotted the embarrassing mistake in large letters as he walked ...
Interia and exterier
This is quite hard to get your head around. Thanks to bob the bolder who uploaded this picture. Misspellings will happen from time to time, but a bit of consistency should be the least one can expect. Why vary the endings of ...
Permament guest
They say alcohol dulls the senses... The proprietor of this Manchester ale tavern, which is close to my heart so shall not be named and shamed, had clearly had a few too many of those oxymoronic permament guest ales when reaching for the ...
Vegatble pie
I'm a big, big pie lover (I've eaten some bigger than my own face). But like any upright citizen, I only love them when the filling is spelled correctly. On one hand I'm tempted to revel in this spelling because I consider a ...
The orginal and best
There's nothing that we like more than an engraving gone wrong. The orginal and best, originally uploaded by GrammarBlog. Huge thanks go to Chris Meads of Wigan for sending us this ...
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