Tio think you at least learn to spell before you have your shop sign made?

[muggglewump]

I passed a Cafe this morning, which had on it, as the name, Breakfasts, lunch and tea's.

Why, just why?
I wanted to tell my friend to stop the car so I could go in and tell them.

Why would you not at least check this?

I'd also check my thread title first before posting

Had to snigger at your thread title

@ thread title too... oh dear

He he he at thread title correction :)

It amazes me as well - there is no way I would hang a sign up that had spelling and or grammar errors in it. Doesn't give the best professional impression does it?

Another favourite of mine are the take-away menus we get here where someone has just taken a biro, crossed out the wrong word and hand written the right version on it.

FGS, get em re-printed.......

And I'm now leaving MN.

They don't realise I bet. they just think you have to use apostrophes so bung them in.

I think the sign maker should tell them though.

you do know everyone is going to point at your thread title.

It is rubbish though, you really think someone would have said... hang on... rogue appostraphe. (not even sure how to spell apostraphe, can someone check?)

there's a shop near me called 'Rubies shoes'

they don't appear to sell rubies

Outrageous it should be Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Idiots

I know what you mean though. I'm sure they paid alot of money for it and as choufleur said the sign maker should have told them.

There's a furniture shop I drive past fairly regularly which obviously paid a fair chunk of money because it's quite a professionally done sign - Sofa's Plus. Drives me nuts!

I rub out the errant apostrophes in restaurant chalkboard menus while standing waiting to be served.

.....Baguette spelled Bagett on Sandwich Shop Signs (see that one quite often, must be the area)

There should be a compulsory course in use and abuse of the apostrophe for all sign makers. They should be fined for infringement.

Ah, the famous grocer's apostrophe...

Potatoe's, tomatoe's, and so on

Oh don't leave!! It was just too, too tempting not to point the error out to you

I completely agree - check your sign first. You'd have thought between the owner of the shop and the printer that one of them would have picked up on the mistake.

Actually in the same crappy town is a furniture shop where I once saw 'chester draw's' and a sign on the door stating, 'come on in were open'.

Ha ha empytshell, Sofa's Plus - sounds like a Greek outsize shop with the apostrophe where it is

Anyone else irked by that company called Plumbing Center? Why the American spelling?

Also, books printed in UK but retaining American spelling - gray, color, center etc.

I may start another thread now.
AIBU to be pissed off that my only ever stupid typos are in thread titles criticising spelling/grammar.
Fecking sod's law.

Sorry, mugglewump you asked for it

A pound shop opened in our town with the sign 'Everytings a pound'. Dh is Irish and was thrilled

LOL @ MrChicken!

Shouldn't 'cafe' be spelled with a lower-case c?

Best one I ever saw was in Bermondsey and said "DO NOT PARK ON FOURCAUGHT"

It was a metal printed sign. Didn't the signmaker say "oi, mate you spell it FORECOURT you gimpoid"?

There's a baker's near us that decided to go all poncey and call itself a patisserie.

Only obviously no-one bothered to check a dictionary because the new, shiny, enormous shop sign proudly stated that it was a PATTISSERIE.

I mean, if they can't get a good standard with their shop sign,how good will their buns be, eh?