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Sir Benedict’s: The Brew’s Are Fantastic; the Grammar’s is Not.

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Readers Like You
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Awning outside of one of my favorite restaurants in Duluth, MN. It’s an English place so you’d think they’d have the language down.

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Your/You’re Confusion: Tesco Cake

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Readers Like You
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Seen in a Tesco supermarket store in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. I alerted the manager, who looked confused about the nature of my complaint. I gave up, but notice that a year or so later it has now been corrected.

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Mom’s Trust Johnsons…but not for grammar

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Maureen
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This was the back cardboard packaging of a two pack of a new product. HOW ON EARTH did this get through their packaging group undetected?

 

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Fumble

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Readers Like You
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Interesting sign at a new local tavern here in Brooklyn. Perhaps the sign designer had a few at the bar beforehand?

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Thug-fractured-lawyers? What the fudge are they?

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Readers Like You
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In the Daily Mail – not something I read for its intellectual writing, more for the angry comments as they make me feel so very liberal and good about myself.

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Your/You’re Confusion: On Camera

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Readers Like You
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In the window of a fancy flower shop in Leeds. It winds me up every time I walk past.

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May I use your toilet, Stall?

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Readers Like You
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Poster for something in Leeds.

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Moo’s, Baa’s, Ooh’s and aagghhs!

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Readers Like You
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Printed in the Weekly Times on a front page of a liftout for the Royal Melbourne Show. Why isn’t it aaggh’s?

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…but not for your spelling.

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Readers Like You
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Three Cheers for the 2 morons who did this. The first moron who asked for it, and then the painter who followed through with the request without correcting.

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Who is Ladie?

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Readers Like You
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