Monday, 29 September 2008
Gordon Brown: texture like sun
The premise behind the blog is wonderful in its simplicity. The BBC website allows members of the public to comment on selected stories in a dedicated forum section called Have Your Say. As with most forums this attracts all manner of idiotic fuckwittery including the usual suspects: sheer ignorance, blustering arrogance and your common or garden variety racism. These thoughts are usually delivered with scant regard for even the most basic laws of grammar.
If you don't wish to trawl through the BBC news section searching for these hilarious nuggets of buffoonery, Nelson and Alex of Speak you're Branes (God, I hate writing that) are dedicated and gracious enough to do it for you.
My very first visit unearthed this gem from Acrobatickenny1, Scotland, in response to Gordon Brown's dogging display - I mean speech - at the Labour party conference here in Manchester.to be honest i dont care anymore, no matter how much we moan how much this country actually hates labout we will never be able to push them out, they will decide when the election is and nit us, so i just laught now, bleed me dry and penalise me for not being a muslim for not being gay and for not being a pregnant junckie because lets face it these groups get everything from this lot, i just laught as karma is a wonderful thing
[acrobatickenny1], scotland
Great stuff. Speak You're Branes is now in our list of friends.
Labels: BBC, conference, friends, Gordon Brown, Labour, spelling errors
posted by GrammarBlog at 7:15 pm
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Saturday, 28 June 2008
A Hole New World
Sometimes spelling errors can initiate fairly sinister thoughts. I don't think I want to know who the 'Hole Family' are, but clearly they'd enjoy themselves at Cha Cha's.
Thanks to Noah Tarnow, who saw this on the Coney Island boardwalk.
Labels: signage, spelling errors
posted by Tom at 11:28 pm
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Friday, 20 June 2008
See what you say: premisis
It always amusis me when someone abusis spelling in such an obvious way, and yet the error still makes it onto public signs before anyone noticis. Needless to say, drinks were spilled here.
Labels: lack of attention to detail, signage, spelling errors
posted by Paddy at 12:58 pm
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Monday, 16 June 2008
Grammar Abuse in Signage: Part 18
I was out for a quiet coffee with my wife over the weekend and, as I headed to the counter to pay for our drinks, I was met with this egregious pair of notices.
Once again, for the pathologically illiterate, pluralisation does not require an apostrophe.
As you cast your eye casually northwards, you notice that they are no longer accepting £50 notes, for which they 'appologies' for any 'inconveinience' caused. You have no idea what kind of so-called 'inconveinience', nay grief, you have caused.
Labels: signage, spelling errors
posted by Paul at 10:52 am
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
Grammar Abuse in Signage: Part 17
A couple of lovely signage atrocities to brighten up your Sunday drudge.
I'm a huge fan of this mess – sent to us by Martin Greenberger of Westchester, California. Aside from the moronic spelling, I really like the ignorant (but wonderfully earnest) attempts at Emphasis.
This, sent in by Simon Pittock, is a splendid example of what can happen when inbred fayre-goers get access to the magic of Microsoft Publisher. Typographically, it's a real stinker. The spacing, size and placement of the characters seems to have been deliberately randomised; it's as if the designer, in a fit of politically-inspired pique, has decided to reject uniformity and smash the system. Excellent.
Labels: signage, spelling errors
posted by Tom at 12:15 pm
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Friday, 15 February 2008
Good tidings
Apart from the gorgeous spelling errors, I enjoyed the sentence beginning 'Clothes, shoes...' The way the list suddenly recommences, seemingly apropos of nothing, is excellent: it's like when a newsreader is told to keep ad-libbing because the tape of the next story isn't ready yet.It's good to be home, GrammarBlog.
Labels: boxes, scotch, scotsman, spelling errors
posted by Dan at 8:51 am
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