Friday, 22 February 2008
Wet your appetite
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The correct word is of course 'whet'.
I can't decide if this is a typo or a malapropism. Either way it's a shocker.
The correct word is of course 'whet'.
Labels: marketing copy, photos, spelling, typo, wrong word
posted by Gez at 1:22 pm
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5 Comments:
People these days don't know what 'whet' means. Took me a while to realise the mistake! (I'm a stickler, so it's not incredibly obvious)
I like the price of the burgers but I don't like the sexual boast in quotation marks.
Boast, dan? Come on, it's not a race.
Plus, why the huge quotes around the claim? Are they hinting that they don't really mean it? They're wagging their fingers next to their ears as they say it?
Nice postt
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