Spelling, wrong word
You’re getting married to a horse?
To avoid embarrassment and accidentally insulting the blushing bride to be, it is important to understand the difference between bridal and bridle. He should be careful, I hear she ...
All part of the servis
It's always a delight when an establishment is unswervingly dedicated to getting things wrong. Further to a previous post about rampant quotation mark abuse at a Nottingham furniture shop, GrammarBlog's Nottingham correspondent Samantha Moran has spotted another case of WRONG at the very same shop....
Undeniably indelible
Seen on the ever brilliant Failblog. My finding of this picture (yep, that was a gerund correctly preceded by the genitive pronoun, thanks ...
Drinking in the old fashion days
On a recent visit to Bristol, I was enthralled to stumble across an 'old fashion pub' for the first time. You would be forgiven for thinking an establishment called Seamus O'donnells (lower case 'd', no apostrophe -'s') ...
All four one
I eight it when people think they are three two spell things incorrectly: Thank you to vitch for adding this to our Flickr group.
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.
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