Spelling

[B00]

Just seen outside our local taxi rank that it has had a new sign erected (oooer!) on it's front, and instead of adding digits for the telephone number they've added words, it says.....

"tripple 2"......and so on. Wouldn't you have thought that somewhere along the way, someone, somewhere would have said, before the sign was erected (oooer again!) "ey up, we've/ you've spelt triple wrong" ??

I'd have gone in and mentioned it myself to them- but i was too busy giggling at it.

[~max~]

Yes, sorry....and I should talk eh! lol

[whiffey]

My personal number one bugbear is

Loose - your trousers are falling down
Lose - you've dropped something and can't find it

LOOSE is not same as LOSE. It means something completely different, which is why is has that extra O as a big giveaway clue. It's even pronounced differently, another clue.

[mrs_overall]

I never knew that whiffey, it has really helped me.
Does this mean these sayings are correct then?

Boo is a loose woman

Whiffey decided to lose the plot years ago

[mrs_overall]

runs away to hide

[raysparx1]

ooops Catron, I will leave the room right now, lol, I hit the "i" and not the "o" should have read it through before posting.

[yogasun]

In our local supermarket they had a promotion for their Truly Irrisistible range of products.
I noticed they all had massive badges on saying 'Try our new Truly Irresistable range' These had all been specially
produced by the large chain for the staff to wear all over the country. I pointed it out (do I need to get a life?) and the next day they'd all been removed - apparently other sad customers like myself had noticed it!
Wouldn't you think as has been mentioned that anything on such public display would be checked out for errors first?!!

[sir.prize]

Every gnu idea yew can think of, sum wan has probably thwart of bee fore. Bill Gates thought of developing a spelling chequer fore 'Word', hand he all most certainly bee leaves that no won had thought of it be four. Is he rite? Yew and aye no that's not true!

[whiffey]

MrsO, can't argue with the syntax, but B00 might have reservations about the semantics in her instance. Me, I don't mind, as Toad would have said.

[Catron]

Yogasun, sorry but I am a pedant today. Both irrisistible and irresistable are wrong spellings.

[yogasun]

Quite right Catron - typing error Irresistible Sorry, I did mean that - it's the ible I meant to correct not the beginning of the word!!

[sddsddean]

Not exactly spelling, but when I was an engineer building the A602 Little Wymondley bypass in Herts, we had to put a new traffic light system round the A1(M) juction. Obviously this means loads of new signs. So the guys starting putting up the new signs and something just didn't look right, but I couldn't work it out. Took me a couple of hours to notice that all the 'Traffic lights ahead' signs ( and I think there was about 20 of them) had the green light at the top and red at the bottom. Only cost the sign company about �5000 to replace them all!

[jno]

mccfluff - if you were going clubbing I suppose it would make more sense to take a tomatoe sarnie because it had an E in it...

Mrs O, have you seen Hot Fuzz? The newspaper editor is one of the people mysteriously murdered. Turns out [SPOILER ALERT] it is the work of the Neighbourhood Watch Assocation, who think he is wrecking their chances of winning the Best Village award because his paper is so full of typos. I have some sympathy with them.

[mrs_overall]

jno - no, I haven't seen that programme but I can understand that!

[B00]

Oi Mrs O!

I saw that!


I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!

[abstibus]

Saw an advert - Ladies clothing - large bag.
Another offered 'double-breasted chickens'.
Not spelling but LOL

[spudqueen]

The main post office in my nearest town has a sign hanging from the ceiling which says 'Stationary'. I did ask them if this meant that the envelopes didn't move but they didn't seem to have a clue what I was on about!
Also in a Shell filling station they had a sign on the petrol pump saying 'Your on camera'. I did mention this to the girl on the till, but again, she didn't seem to have a clue.......

[Buenchico]

When I was teaching, the label on a filing cabinet seemed to explain why so many kids are unfit these days. It read "P.E. stationary" ;-)

Felixstowe Tourist Information Centre used to have the word 'Information' in big stick-on letters on the front of their desk. I walked in one day and noticed that one of the letters had fallen off. I picked it up and returned it to the lady behind the counter. As I did so, I couldn't resist saying "I don't think much of this place. There's no F-in information!" ;-)

Chris

[Whickerman]

Was driving behind a sign-writer's van one day last year, with his name, logo, phone number and the claim "All work fully guaraunteed"

[saxy_jag]

I saw this on a Leicester First bus last week:

"Buggies, must not be placed, in the space reserved, for wheelchair users"

Note, no full stop. I think the person who typed this (it was printed onto A4 paper and laminated) had just learned to do commas and was practicing. Maybe they didn't do full stops until the following week.

[Man in Black]

One of my favourites - featured on Chris Tarrant show - was an Australian local paper advert, House for Sale. It ended with the stipulation NO ASIANS. Maybe not illegal at the time but bad enough to send TV reporter to vendor. After many replies to questions, such as "I just don`t like them", "They are leeches and scum" etc.. It finally dawned on the seller that the advert he had telephoned in should have ended with NO AGENTS.