Mark's & Spencer - friend of pedant's

[PretendFriend]

"Baby Giraffe's" - I love it

[PretendFriend]

"I do not care to dress my child in a top containing a glaring grammatical gaffe."

Suzanne Walker, are you here?

[SoMuchToBats]

Well, our local M&S store still has tills which say "5 items or less", so they haven't been that careful, have they?

[GeorginaA]

I read that at first as "glaring grammatical giraffe"...

[PretendFriend]

Oh really? That piece says they have been changed to fewer - you should complain, SMTB, maybe you'll get vouchers too

[TutterIckOrTreat]

well, my local store still displays "5 items or less" signs whatever head office may say...

[TutterIckOrTreat]

oops, sorry - echo in here somany

[SoMuchToBats]

I'm so MUCH actually (as in Iloveyousomuchtobits, but I'm bats at the moment)


I think I will complain and see if I can get compensation

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed it, Tutter

[chai18]

Marks! No apostrophe!

My M&S has changed their sign to fewer.

[cowmod]

fab

[PretendFriend]

no apostrophe in pedants either, chai...

[TutterIckOrTreat]

sorry somuch

doh

[cowmod]

i thought hat was aa LURE to pedants!

[UnquietDad]

Glaring Grammatical Giraffe

[PretendFriend]

It was, cod - it's so easy to suck'em in normally, I don't know where the usual suspects are this morning

[IdrisTheDragooOOOOOOoooon]

I read it as a glaring grammatical giraffe as well.

Had problems with just reading the title of this thread tbh .

[TutterIckOrTreat]

i was trying to understand thread title

if it was as in "m&s, friend of the pedant" then it was correct

so i kept schtum

[aelita]

Perhaps someone should write to the Charlie and Lola publishers/author. They have the 'less' error in one of the books. Pedant that I am I have to grit my teeth when reading it! And don't get me started on the 'make less strangers' phone advert....

[PretendFriend]

Ah well I started with "pedant's friend" - and then I thought that sounded like "friend of the pedant" so I changed it - obviously not well enough!

Honestly its harder to get it wrong than right sometime's

[cowmod]

but i think the "less error" is hte way she speaks