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To think someone should have picked up on this terrible misspelling?

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SalemSaberhagen · 16/12/2015 11:59

I'm parked outside a second hand shop right now called 'Needfull things'. Argh! Why did nobody pick up on it? Surely the printers should have noticed?

It's really annoying me!

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honeysucklejasmine · 16/12/2015 12:01

Shops often have "poorly spelt" names. It's generally intentional, to create a pun or avoid trademark infringements etc.

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DropYourSword · 16/12/2015 12:03

Probably because there'd be a potential issue if they used the correct spelling, due to the Stephen King book!

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SquirrelledAway · 16/12/2015 12:37

My local Tesco advertises that it sells CD's and DVD's.

It drives me crazy every time I see it.

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juneau · 16/12/2015 12:38

Signage is frequently spelt wrong. Its the scourge of the modern age. Someone said that 'bad English' would be the language of the 21st century and I'm inclined to agree.

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catfordbetty · 16/12/2015 12:39

it's

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VaticanAssassin · 16/12/2015 12:41

There's a business where I live, called "Central Tattoo's" Grin

Not somewhere I'd trust to permanently ink my body!

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LagunaBubbles · 16/12/2015 12:42

My guess is its intentional and meant to be spelled like that.

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DisappointedOne · 16/12/2015 12:58

A friend sent me this.

To think someone should have picked up on this terrible misspelling?
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MackerelOfFact · 16/12/2015 13:00

Printers don't generally proofread, they have to just print what they're sent. It's quite likely it wasn't even printed in the UK to be honest, so wouldn't have been picked up by a non-English-speaker anyway.

Mistakes happen, things get missed. I'm an editor by trade, most of my authors are educated to medical degree level or higher, and they still make all kinds of daft errors.

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juneau · 16/12/2015 13:01

LOL

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nebulae · 16/12/2015 13:11

There's a takeaway near us that sells pizza's, kebab's, burger's and (my personal favourite) currie's.

There also used to be a pub sign near us that drove me bonkers everytime I passed it...The Colliers Arm's....FFS!

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SoWhite · 16/12/2015 13:11

Unrelated, but I really like your username OP.

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queenmools · 16/12/2015 13:13

There's a shop near us called Pot's and Pan's. Drives me insane.

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Destinysdaughter · 16/12/2015 13:18

I feel your pain! The taxi rank outside my local station recently had a new sign posted up saying
'Taxi s', obviously there had been an apostrophe but then someone had scrubbed it out!

It's all over the bloody place, I think it's becoming so common that eventually an apostrophe to denote a plural will become obligatory!

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Lindt70Percent · 16/12/2015 13:21

Someone on our local Facebook group posted last week about how an 'out of control spaniel had killed all our chickens and our neighbours'. That's one crazy dog!

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SoWhite · 16/12/2015 13:23

Haha Lindt, that reminds me of this:

To think someone should have picked up on this terrible misspelling?
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Lindt70Percent · 16/12/2015 13:23

Obviously my post wasn't quite along the same lines as they were obviously quite distressed when they wrote it rather than getting it printed to advertise anything!

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Lindt70Percent · 16/12/2015 13:23

SoWhite love it!

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nebulae · 16/12/2015 13:26

Friends/family take photos of rogue apostrophes and send them to me, just to irritate me.

Here's one example. Not sure what the "wall drape's" did to deserve an apostrophe when none of the other items did. Wouldn't mine so much if there was some consistency.

To think someone should have picked up on this terrible misspelling?
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nebulae · 16/12/2015 13:27

mind

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iWipemyass · 16/12/2015 13:43

There is a cafe in a sheltered housing complex near by me. That offers tea's, coffee's, sandwiche's, cake's and lunche's

Aaaaargh

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FeliciaJollygoodfellow · 16/12/2015 13:45

My favourite is a local pub called either 'Mr Smith's' or 'Mr Smiths'.

I am fond of 'All Doll'd Up' as well Wink

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MummyPig24 · 16/12/2015 13:53

Salem it's not a hideous blue, glittery sign is it?!

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MrsBalustradeLanyard · 16/12/2015 13:57

'Scourge of the modern age'! Haha! Not ISIS or the end of antibiotics or anything? Grin

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LurkingHusband · 16/12/2015 14:36

There's an apocryphal story about a snack wagon that doubled trade by deliberately misspelling a word, and making customers out of all the people who helpfully stopped to point it out ...

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