Irish Examiner Publishes Signs Photos

Carrigman

I submitted my photos of the mis-spelled signs at Kent Station, Cork to the Irish Examiner and they published them this morning.

Weer knot vairy gud att spaeling heer inn Cork:-)

Roen

I'm not a morning person but it took a minute to find out what was wrong with the 'Taxies' one.

deRanged

I go through the train station twice a day and I've never noticed either of those!
Seems I'm neither a morning nor an evening person.

Fajitas!

Very good Carrigman!

Valentia

Great stuff John. Are you a teacher by any chance??

Carrigman

Valentia wrote:

Great stuff John. Are you a teacher by any chance??

Nope, Danny. Just a citizen concerned about the misuse of language. In my job I regularly come across that dreadful concoction, management-consultant-speak, which has spread like a cancer throughout officialdom. You know the kind of thing: people who say "going forward" for "in the future". It drives me nuts. The Daily Telegraph recently ran a competition for readers to compose a piece of prose crammed with as many infuriating phrases as possible. This was the winning entry:

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