Post Office

I was at the post office the other day and spied a box on a counter.  I wish I could've snapped a picture of it, but it would have been too conspicuous to the box owner.

On the side of the box the sender had written:

Merry Christmas
Happy New Years

***FRAGILE***

***BRAKABLE***

***FRAGILE***

[sigh]

Wholly Cow!

I snapped this picture of a sign on the ol' teevee news a few months ago in the wake of the sexual abuse story unfolding  at Miramonte Elementary School in California.  Amazing.



I can see why they want (and need!) their teachers back!



Phonetics

Saw this a couple of weeks ago and chuckled.

Sacrifice

Oops...

You Say Potato

This was likely an inadvertent omission, but they still put it up ;-)

Ingredients

I found this little gem at a web site while looking for steak marinade recipes.

- "Alcahol"
- "Worchester"
- Missing parenthesis
- Inconsistent capitalization

Nice

Chilling Misspelling!

Refridgerator artwork in a little shop in Wimberley, Texas. Oops!

Touching

I shot this gem at the marketplace in Waikiki Beach last month.

USFidelis

It seems automobile warranty company USFidelis needs to find an ad agency that is true to English grammar rules. Here are two snapshots of a commercial I saw on television today (Credit to Dear Shelley for alerting me!), and one I found on the USFidelis web site.

An apostrophe might be in order here.

Hyphenate it or make it two words.

Wasn't this covered in a remedial punctuation lesson in fourth grade?

Putrified

I found this gem of a sign on the way home from exploring today. Click to witness the horror

Special, Non-English Edition

I captured this egregious Spanish misspelling today in a local supermarket.

I might be a little more forgiving if I lived in Vermont, but I live in Texas, and this is way unaccepable.

In these here parts, you hear Spanish spoken in public nearly as often as English. The 2000 census showed the “Hispanic or Latino” population of San Antonio as 58.66%, in case you're interested.

The correct spelling is P-o-b-l-a-n-o, by the way. A Poblano is someone from the Mexican state of Puebla.

You’ll find plenty of Google results for Pablano, but it’s just wrong.

Harvey's Cakes

I took this picture while taking my friend Shelley to the doctor the other (early) morning.

I wonder if them new-fangled sign-making contraptions have spell checkers. ;-)

Secondarily, the sentence is slightly dorky (That’s a technical term). Is the proprietor reaching out to people who are tired of getting frosting at reasonable prices? I can hear the chants protesting inexpensive frosting now: "One, two, three, four, expensive frosting is for whores!”

Or, as I expect is the case, is he trying to tell us he’s peddling reasonably-priced cakes that aren’t just a pile of frosting?

Fire your sign-maker and your slogan-maker-upper Harvey!

http://moveamericaforward.org

Litarature

A screen shot of a site I visit to keep track of my daughter's high school studies.

They Says The Gury's Out

http://www.swtexaslive.com/node/5925

Their Water Broke!

The Diamondbacks will face the the Rockies for a birth in the Fall Classic.
News ticker on Fox News, October 10, 2007

Illogical

“Prof. I inter duce myself, but I need to know about this…” -- Fellow student in a Logic class I'm taking this semester, April 2007

Horrendous

Well Phuck Me!!!

This post comes courtesy of Ivy Baby. Thanks for thinking of me and my anal-retentive language blog. I love it!

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KCRA of Sacramento is “Where the News Comes First.” Spelling must rate somewhere below that. Here’s an excerpt from an article dated 09 June, 2006:

One of the horses is a 26-year-old Arabian mare that is at least 400 pounds underweight. Magnifying the cruelty is the fact that she's been fighting for her life while also taking care of her 5-month-old philly.

Here’s the link.

There is no byline, so the entire KCRA organization is liable for this blunder:

Dear Newscomesfirsters,

“Philly” is a nickname for, you guessed it, Philadelphia; a.k.a. the City of Brotherly Love. “Filly” is the word you should have used, unless you were referring to a five-month-old block of Philly cream cheese, in which case you would be guilty of not capitalizing the word.

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KCRA corrected the post on 6/12/06.
Apparently proofreading lags behind
the writing. Or maybe someone sent
them a note :-)