Needs another apostrophe
I passed a junk shop today - the same one where I bought my cheap Curta, actually - which had a display of cheap scarves outside.
After what I can only imagine was long cogitation, the proprietor of the shop decided to render the name of these items on the sign thusly:
“Scarfe’s”.
(Quotation marks mine. “Misused” quotation marks would, of course, have iced this particular cake very nicely. But you can’t have everything.)
Ms Scarfe should have known not to leave such chattel on the doorstep of an entrepreneur.
Were the price’s reasonable?
Comment by DBT — December 21, 2007 @ 6:38 pm
One of the Google ads I see on this page right now is warning about “Data Enry Scams”.
Comment by Daniel Rutter — December 21, 2007 @ 9:42 pm
We used to have a store in town called Dollar’s and Sense. I was so sorely tempted to drag a ladder over there and scrape off that stupid apostrophe.
Comment by HitScan — December 22, 2007 @ 6:04 am
My old mechanic had an exquisite, hand-painted sign on his door. Probably had been there for 20 or more years. It said, “Credit Cards Excepted”.
Comment by rho — December 22, 2007 @ 6:26 am
signs like that make my brain melt :(
Comment by unfunk — December 23, 2007 @ 2:20 am
Oh how I love the illiterate. My boss send me emails that contain phrases such as “please to be doing…”
Though when English is your second language, I guess exceptions can be made.
Comment by phrantic — December 23, 2007 @ 9:55 am
I work for the NSW government. I find it highly irritating to receive procedural documents, supposedly written by highly intelligent people. However these people don’t realise (and obviously don’t spell check it themselves or don’t know any better) that they have left MS Word set to the USA spellings. So the words all have “Z” in them amongst other issues.
Comment by demosthien — December 24, 2007 @ 9:50 am
The panda says NO!
Comment by peridot — December 24, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
Saw this one at the entrance of a local Thai restaurant.
The doorway was by no means smaller than the usual.
Comment by OCT — January 9, 2008 @ 12:36 pm