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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, ...
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 ...
Caf’e Rio
I'm not sure what to make of this. Haven't the proprietors done their market research?Thanks to Andrew Green
Dearly Beloved
Dan's Stag, originally uploaded by Gez D. This angry young man is GrammarBlog's very own Dan. He's ...
Mail box’s
Apostrophe catastrophe, originally uploaded by Clive Murray. Thanks to Clive Murray for this gem.Apparently this shop can ...
Customer Support
Today Tesco Customer Support provided me with this juicy number:"I'm sorry that the item you received an email referring to a refund for your recent order."I don't care who you are, that's some astonishing gibberish. In case you're wondering what the man was trying to establish, it was, in ...
Love thy neighbour (even if he’s a high fullutent)
If none of these people is going to heaven, I don't want to go there either. Apart from the spelling and apostrophe abuse, this is priceless. Why pick ...
Guilty Secrets
Despite being, as some would have it, an overly-picky grammar snob, I have to confess to several compulsions that frequently make me out to be a hypocrite. These guilty secrets are either mistakes that I have to take real care to avoid or perceived errors that I don't see any ...
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