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Grate spelling mistakes of our time
Nov 06, 2012
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Funnily enough, some years ago the classic mistake was made on a circular to council workers about the library opening hours. Unfortunately it apparently said at the top. Note new Pubic Library opening hours from April.
Brian
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The local rag printed a proud boast from our local council "No cuts to pubic services". I haven't found out precisely what services they offer yet :-).
Paul DS.
Sadly, never a truer word spoken in jest!
My favourite was the caption to a photo in the East Kent Gazette of a soon-to-be married young woman : "Miss Smith and her finance".
mine from a chinese takeaway menu
"Roast Dick with Pineapple"
I still have it somewhere (the menu....)
Jim K
on a BBC Staff "restaurant" was the offer of "Spotted Richard"
One of the NHS Trusts did the same, showing a total misunderstanding of the origins of the name as probably being a corruption of spotted dog or, possibly, spotted dough.
Colin Bignell
hopefully no-one wanted thirds...
Jim K
magazine. And Poundstretcher has "eletronic" musical keyboards on sale.
Owain
It teaches you have to steal Manhatten from the Indians?
JGH
You use the broaches to enlarge the holes in the beads.
Colin Bignell
Ah, you breach the beads with a broach, but use a brooch to prevent a breach in your breeches.
Owain
With the steady decline in education standards and increasing reliance on speel-chuckers, is it any wonder? Although that doesn't account for "eletronic".
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Is that irony?
I don't see anyone trying to justify those as "evolving language"!
In article , Huge writes
It's the misuse of you/your/you're that's getting to me. And it's getting worse.
Or, 'I could of...'.
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