Public punctuation/spelling mistakes

earlyevening

Any interest in this? Funny spelling/punctuation bloopers in signage and packaging etc.
It's inspired by me noticing a mistake on some Donegal Catch packaging in the supermarket today.

Rather than "Skipper's Specials", they have "Skippers Special's" as the name of this product. lol.

Sorry that's the best image of the product I can find.

http://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=275617253

Oh deer

Karl Stein

Less meat fewer chops.

Wacker The Attacker

How's your grammar?

Chucken

http://m0.her.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/B0D9Rv7CYAElEi2.jpg

Jeju

My 3 year old asked me one evening "Can I put this not there?
She has a lot to learn.

RayM

"The Temple Bar Welcome's the World"

jellybear

A classic that's been there for as long as I can remember. On the old N2 heading to Dublin.

Eugene Norman

Karl Stein wrote: »

Less meat fewer chops.

More meat. More chops.

Mallagio

DBB wrote: »

A hairdresser's shop in Duleek, Co. Meath... But maybe they meant it? :o




Along the same lines, there was a billboard in Landsdowne Road dart station many moons ago advertising a printing and typesetting company, with the headline "Now Your on the Right Track"

I'd put that down to someone who came in on a Monday morning with a serious hangover and tried to be "at the races".....

Obviously the boss fell for it

DBB

A hairdresser's shop in Duleek, Co. Meath... But maybe they meant it? :o

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Along the same lines, there was a billboard in Landsdowne Road dart station many moons ago advertising a printing and typesetting company, with the headline "Now Your on the Right Track"

Outside a large hardware superstore:

''Blocking This Exit Puts Life's At Risk'

The Backwards Man

Esther Rantzen will never be dead

tampopo

RayM wrote: »

"The Temple Bar Welcome's the World"

yeah, who uses Farenheit these days...!











(ok, the Yanks, I know)

Tarzana2

Get a bit :rolleyes: when people declare themselves to be grammar or spelling sticklers. I have never come across even one person who doesn't make some kind of error at some stage.

Best was a girl I knew who declare on her Bebo page (yes, Bebo ) that she couldn't bear spelling and grammer mistakes. Grammer.

And 'its'. Loads of people who love to correct people on this kind of thing use 'it's' where it should be 'its'. When did people stop understanding when to use 'its'?

I realise there's an irony in this post, but I genuinely don't go around correcting people, I just notice the glaring errors of people who make a big deal about this kind of stuff, especially if they are particularly supercilious about it.

dee_mc

All I want to know is, was the bare/bear gaffe deliberate?

The Backwards Man

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Get a bit :rolleyes: when people declare themselves to be grammar or spelling sticklers. I have never come across even one person who doesn't make some kind of error at some stage.

Best was a girl I knew who declare on her Bebo page (yes, Bebo ) that she couldn't bare grammer mistakes. Grammer.

Gentle Ben

AlanS181824

Tesco's community fund banner about how much money they raised then below they're something along the lines of...

"Lets keep it going."

Edit: 5,500 posts

sligojoek

A shop in Sligo had a sign stating they were "30 years in bussiness" on the door for months.

Vincent Vega

I've just noticed two spelling mistakes on the front of the Passport Application Form Notes, which was apparently reviewed in July of last year.

'Prority at these public counters is given to those travelling at short notice'

and about 5 lines further down

'...must be presented with your appilcation.'

Shameful stuff.

Tarzana2

Solicitor's office I pass by on my bus to work. Big poster in the window: 'Free first consulation'. Mispelled professional signage is pretty bad because there should be some quality control there.

Tarzana2

dee_mc wrote: »

All I want to know is, was the bare/bear gaffe deliberate?

See, that's exactly my point!

We all make mess ups. I wrote a post here about it but I never bring anything like this up in everyday life, and people who claim themselves to be sticklers are as bad as anyone else.

I often mix up 'lose' and 'loose'. I understand the difference, but for some reason when writing quickly, my brain struggles to distinguish them. I personally find that interesting. That I know which is which, but it takes me a moment to process. I reckon a lot of people have slight struggles with stuff like this. Very mild dyslexia, perhaps? I don't know. But others having a sense of superiority about it is a bit misplaced, especially when, as said, I have never come across someone who didn't make some kind of spelling/syntax/grammar mistake at some stage.

berger89

in dunes one day and there was a sign for what was supposed to be coconut, but was actually "cocnut".
maybe its a new hipster fruit or something?

Vernonymous

I always mispelled decision with "desicion". Like most of the time.

A cow called Daisy

berger89 wrote: »

in dunes one day and there was a sign for what was supposed to be coconut, but was actually "cocnut".
maybe its a new hipster fruit or something?

Perhaps you saw that sign in Dunnes?

I saw sign in Aldi last Christmas for Quality Street's

spurious

Banner in Temple Bar yesterday on a webcam for the world to see.

'The Temple Bar welcome's the world.
Happy St Patricks Day'

One where there shouldn't be and none where there should.

berger89

A cow called Daisy wrote: »

Perhaps you saw that sign in Dunnes?

I saw sign in Aldi last Christmas for Quality Street's

autocorrect :cool:

LostinKildare

In the Tesco in Kildare Town there is an end-of-aisle display of sewing bits -- needles, thread, safety pins, buttons, etc. A large printed sign above it says "Stich and Sow." Yep, both words misspelled. I mentioned it to a cashier while at the checkout and she said a few people had pointed it out to the manager, who was sorting it out. Many months later, no change, and it just bugged me. Again, I mentioned it out to a cashier and she informed me that Tesco is a British chain, and that "stich" and "sow" are the British spellings of "stitch" and "sew"!!

In our family that Tesco is called "Stich and Sow," as in, "I'm nipping over to Stich and Sow for a litre of Jameson, want anything?"

SMJSF

Seen outside "wings" on O'Connell street: "bergur" instead of burger on their stand outside.... I would have loved to have gotten a photo of it

PARlance

Tarzana2 wrote: »

See, that's exactly my point!

We all make mess ups. I wrote a post here about it but I never bring anything like this up in everyday life, and people who claim themselves to be sticklers are as bad as anyone else.

I often mix up 'lose' and 'loose'. I understand the difference, but for some reason when writing quickly, my brain struggles to distinguish them. I personally find that interesting. That I know which is which, but it takes me a moment to process. I reckon a lot of people have slight struggles with stuff like this. Very mild dyslexia, perhaps? I don't know. But others having a sense of superiority about it is a bit misplaced, especially when, as said, I have never come across someone who didn't make some kind of spelling/syntax/grammar mistake at some stage.

Another one here for the lose/loose struggle.
Brian and brain another one that I have to double check every time.
Not a nice feeling seeing an email you've sent starting with "Hi Brain, it was a pleasure to finally meet you......"
Who & How was beaten out off me as a kid but I will still make the odd mistake from time to time.

I probably have a mild form of that hard to spell word. But I like numbers. That's my way of not worrying about it too much.

littleteapot

I know it's not particularly public but it's still someone being bad at punctuation in their job so here goes. The card I got my mum for mother's day had the following verse:
"If mum's were like flowers I'd pick you every time..."

Seriously, it said mum's. I nearly got sick when I saw it. And when I did see it, it was far too late to bring it back and get another one. My mum didn't notice it, until I pointed it out though.

Flabangav

A sign in Galway university hospital

bonzodog2

The sign above Supermacs in Athenry reads "BALIE ÁTHA AN RÍ"
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Lapin

^^^^ I've walked past that a million times and never copped it. :pac:

I remember laughing at this for ages in Paris. More of a bad translation! https://www.flickr.com/photos/bermanphotography/8969171733/

ixoy

For ages, Easons in O'Connell Street, Dublin had a "Sorry Your Leaving" card section.

NachoBusiness

ixoy wrote: »

For ages, Easons in O'Connell Street, Dublin had a "Sorry Your Leaving" card section.

I thought that was odd too but then took a closer look and all was well as the cards all read:

'Sorry Your Leaving.. was so difficult and failed you dumb fcuk".

spurious

Saw this a few years ago in the bread and cakes section of Centra in Fairview.

'Dear Customer, please use thongs provided'.

LynnGrace

'Smile your on camera' is a fairly common one, in shops. It makes me smile though!

littleteapot

littleteapot wrote: »

I know it's not particularly public but it's still someone being bad at punctuation in their job so here goes. The card I got my mum for mother's day had the following verse:
"If mum's were like flowers I'd pick you every time..."

Seriously, it said mum's. I nearly got sick when I saw it. And when I did see it, it was far too late to bring it back and get another one. My mum didn't notice it, until I pointed it out though.

Also the fact that it's Mothers' Day, not Mother's Day.

And that's not a dig at you, that's wrong on so many shop displays.

The Princess Bride

I have a love /hate relationship with these threads.

1.I'm afraid to post in case I accidentally make a grammar/ punctuation error.

2.I'm too busy pulling out my eyebrows one by one in frustration at the frequency of simple mistakes.

Menas

Someone got me that book 'Eats shoots leaves' a few years ago.
Awful stuff. But the wife, who is a grammar nazi, loved it.

Dramatik

There is a corner shop near me called "The Bungalow" But the sign above the shop front reads "The Bugnalow" Funny thing is they have another sign outside the shop that has the correct spelling, not sure if they've noticed or if they just couldn't be bothered buying a new sign.

Yes found a pic of it online, someone else must have noticed as well: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuD5SYEIAAAjkuJ.jpg

SMJSF

Dramatik wrote:

There is a corner shop near me called "The Bungalow" But the sign above the shop front reads "The Bugnalow" Funny thing is they have another sign outside the shop that has the correct spelling, not sure if they've noticed or if they just couldn't be bothered buying a new sign.

Dramatik wrote:

Yes found a pic of it online, someone else must have noticed as well:

Is that the one outside Deansgrange cemetery?

gramar

This isn't grammar, just bad English. It's a sign on the motorway as you leave the Basque Country and annoys me every time I see it. You'd think they'd have checked with a native before getting the signs made up.

Dramatik

SMJSF wrote: »

Is that the one outside Deansgrange cemetery?

Yep that's the one, haven't gone past there in years so it may have changed by now

maximoose

This annoyed me for years

Cosgrave Car's - Dorset Street

selous

People calling the Guards, not the Gardaí or singular Garda, not a "u" in sight.

biko

Just got a text from www.25plus.ie

were sorry to see you go

I suppose it's an easy mistake to make but...

KungPao

Just came across this...from Burger King.

Just try and resist the Tendercrisp®. Its a real charmer. Succulent 100% chicken breast with a delicious crispy coating. Topped with tomato, lettuce, mayo, wrapped up in a corn dusted bun.

Its...

Also, shouldn't "corn dusted" be hyphenated?

Either way, now I'm hungry.

M.T. Cranium

Eye kant recal the last time me done one.