RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted February 12, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2015 I am as guilty as the next of posting before proofreading, but I am not a professional. When I see spelling mistakes within a post, I ignore them. But when a professional entity puts a flashing banner ad at the top of (it seems) every page that I look at with a glaring schoolboy spelling error, I see red. Hat, Coat.... Regards Ian P.S. already reported myself for intolerant behaviour Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 OK; which one should I be looking for? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted February 12, 2015 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted February 12, 2015 Puffers Bargins Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Rightho; will pass the message back - not noticed that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 There was a shop at the Norton crossroads in Erdington that had a professionally decked-out frontage bearing the expensive legend 'BARGIN FAYRE.' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 There was a shop at the Norton crossroads in Erdington that had a professionally decked-out frontage bearing the expensive legend 'BARGIN FAYRE.' Don't loiter outside, just bargin 'n' save! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 One glaring error perpetrated by many organisations, including TOCs, is that they somehow can't spell railway. When they put that word before station, they spell it as train..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 13, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 13, 2015 There was a shop at the Norton crossroads in Erdington that had a professionally decked-out frontage bearing the expensive legend 'BARGIN FAYRE.' But if you put that on a layout.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tomparryharry Posted February 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2015 Old sales technique, I'm afraid. Put a deliberate 'small' grammatical error in the message, to get it noticed.... or, "We duz it orl the tyme. I getz peepol cummin in ere wot fink thay now it aul. Theez geezers aulways bang onn abart 'ow they can se a mistaek in the spellin. Then they buys somethin ofus, witch is aurlrite by me." or, "I am a web page designer, and English, and the grammatical permutations thereof, is not my first language." Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RFS Posted February 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2015 There was a pub-restaurant near us that for a long time had a big board outside proclaiming that "WERE THE BEST". Usually it's extraneous apostrophes that are the most common problem, but the absence of one here made all the difference! At least the Puffer's one wasn't advertising "bargain's". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivegreen Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 In a similar vein, a comma in the right place could save a life, as in: 'Let's eat grandma!' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold colin penfold Posted February 13, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 13, 2015 Of course some people genuinely suffer from issues such as dyslexia so we need to be a bit cautious before criticising. In case you don't know, dyslexia causes you to get your mucking worms fuddled. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 In a similar vein, a comma in the right place could save a life, as in: 'Let's eat grandma!' And if they are not used it gives a whole new meaning to... I helped my Uncle, Jack, off his horse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenton Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Old sales technique, I'm afraid. Put a deliberate 'small' grammatical error in the message, to get it noticed.... Oh, now I understand Vote La Bore Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobM Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ahhhh...The Great British 'tryping' error.....a continual 'sauce' of humour Have a great weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 And if they are not used it gives a whole new meaning to... I helped my Uncle, Jack, off his horse I think that's a bit disrespectful to your Uncle, although I suppose it depends on the age difference between you. It implies that you just refer to him by his first name. It's actually much more well mannered to omit the commas. If people have dirty minds that's not really your problem! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Ahhhh...The Great British 'tryping' error.....a continual 'sauce' of humour Have a great weekend. The Senior Secretary in an office I used to work in once refer to her writing machine as a tripewriter. It was a pretty accurate description of her work too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Channel 4 flashed up an advert for a program about " Bad Behavor" the other day, not sure what Behavor is but it sounds quite painful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegreenly Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I don't know if it counts as spelling mistakes but I find it b------y annoying when rmweb , in their front page list of events, use the American date system , MM/DD/YYYY , instead of the tried and tested British system of DD/MM/YYYY ! One can easily try to go to an exhibition on the 3rd of Feb and find it is on the 2nd of March! Dave Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It's down to the US software; no easy way of changing it I'm afraid which is why I force the full entries to have the date entered in the proper format so if you read a calendar entry you will see the right date. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivegreen Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 I think that's a bit disrespectful to your Uncle, although I suppose it depends on the age difference between you. It implies that you just refer to him by his first name. It's actually much more well mannered to omit the commas. If people have dirty minds that's not really your problem! When I once did a course on accounting, the difference between 'helping your uncle ###### a horse' and 'helping your uncle ###### a horse' was presented as the definition of capitalisation. Edit - hard to believe that 'j a c k o f f' and 'J a c k o f f' have been #####-ised! What are we coming to??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Of course some people genuinely suffer from issues such as dyslexia so we need to be a bit cautious before criticising. In case you don't know, dyslexia causes you to get your mucking worms fuddled. I can remember seeing a poster up for a "Dyselxia awareness group" a few years ago. Ooops! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 And if anyone visiting the Kenavon/East Reading show next Saturday fancies a walk round the neighbourhood,they might find this: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCR Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Every letter my local council has sent me for the last few years has featured the same spelling mistake. It's like they got the paper batch produced without checking they had it right first and now they can't go back. Hope someone got a telling for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cromptonnut Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 A local oriental restaurant near to where I used to live, before someone pointed out the obvious. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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