Literacy And Numerousy.

[fiction-factory]

I have just received a copy of an advert for a temp job in a school.. The advert says "You will be Teaching Literacy and Numerousy..." It doesn't say whether I'd be teaching these to the pupils or to the Head/HR department...

[Prudie]

You have got to be joking! Mind you I once saw a manager write on someone's annual staff report " her writtain work needs improvement"

[Mamyalynne]

That's worrying.

[bookbinder]

There's a lot of it about. Stand by for a flood of examples!

[Cloverjo]

Yes I've got a couple. A teacher wrote on a child's piece of work "You could of done alot better."

A sign in my son's classroom "please keep your draws tidy".

[douglas9401]

Absolutely banana's

[bookbinder]

One of the two lifts in my local supermarket is not working. A sign next to it apologises for the "inconvience."

[mikey4444]

This advert had to be written on some kind of word processing software, so I would have thought that the original spellchecker would have flagged up a problem.

My spelling is far from 100% and I rely on my spellchecker to help.

[jourdain2]

I'm very worried about the outbreak of 'Influnza' due this Winter, according to our doctor's surgery notice. :(

[mikey4444]

I had that last winter, and very nasty it was too !

[gingejbee]

I have to smile at the several spellings of "definitely"....including "defiantly"!

[Baldric]

https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/funny-spelling-mistakes-errors-fails-120-586e0ba1f1a26__605.jpg

[zebo]

As a student teacher in my first term we were sent into a school to observe, I really didn't know what to do about the title Golden Hampster written on the board.
Years later, over our 3.30 on Friday glass of wine, we were talking about irritating things, someone mentioned 'our/are' which in Salford is almost an accent thing, it's only rarely written but I mentioned the would of/ would have confusion. A young teacher, a very good teacher too, didn't realise that 'would of' is wrong.

[Buenchico]

At a parents' evening, the mother of one of the boys in my tutor group came up to me and said "I've got to see Stephen's English teacher next but his handwriting is so bad that I simply can't read what he's written on Stephen's report. Can you help me make sense of it, please?"

I looked at what Stephen's English teacher had written and, after a bit of squinting, I managed to make sense of it. It read "Stephen's work is frequently illegible" ;-)

[Tuvok]

https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-1692348

[murraymints]

there always seems to be shepards pie on the menu at the local pub !

[New Judge]

Earlier this year I was visiting a well-known “seat of learning” in the South of England. In the student shop was this notice:

There are no longer discounts available on the news papers.

To apply for news paper discounts/vouchers you can iether (sic):

Subscribe
Use a Smart App
Use Online Access

You have to provide student ID infromation (sic)
We except (sic) news paper vouchers.

[NoMercy]

They could of tried harder ;)

[maggiebee]

Mixing the words "compliment" and "complement" gives rise to many strange (and funny) signs.

[roopower]

This isn't a new problem. When I was a teaching assistant in the seventies I frequently spent my breaks going round the classrooms correcting spelling mistakes on the blackboards. (Am I allowed to call them that?)
My 'favourite' recently was a sentence put on the board for the children to copy in their best writing. ' I went to the Isle of Wite. The boats on the see had big sales'. The same teacher was very fond of 'fury 'animals.