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?

My WORST is "Broach" which you see in a lot of Ebay shops and also on pro websites! Oooh! Near my house is a pub called The Marlbororough Arms....I kid thee not!

There's a pub near me called "The Waggon and (something)". Was there a surplus of g's at the signage company?

There is a sign advertising a shop near the IL's that says:

"Proberly the best beds in town".

One day I'm going to go equipped with a marker pen, undercover of darkness, and correct it.

We have a catalogue in our school office from a company of signmakers which proudly offers to create signs "to you're requirements"

It does not inspire confidence...

OlderandWiser - divers colours is rather old fashioned, but perfectly correct if the shop was meaning they have several different colours.

We have a Kimi,s Nails near us, yes that's Kimi,s with a comma rather than apostrophe

Saw a van on the motorway last week

'Dans signs and padges'

I don't think I would use them to make my sign.

RustyBear - so it is! My dictionary calls it the "archaic form".

Only if they spelled diverse correctly RB :)

On our high street there is a cafe/bakery called Julies Pantry. The urge to correct the sign is almost impossible to resist when staggering walking past from the pub. Instead I make do with a sniff and a haughty smirk.

Years ago I was getting a tankard engraved for my DB's brother (naff, I know ) - I wrote the details out hastily and spelt 'eighteenth' wrongly - they engraved it exactly as I had written it; when I asked why they didn't at least query it with me, they just inisisted 'it's what you wrote down'- I was v. annoyed. At least it amused my DB and is a bit of a family joke now !

Kaloki, Waggon is an acceptable variant of wagon in the UK.

Divers is not the same word as diverse, FairhairedandFrustrated.

Divers means several, diverse means different.

Really Grimma? I've never seen it anywhere, but stand corrected :)

Alovelybunch presumably the "chrismas" also made you a bit ?!

Well yes but even DH noticed the "be for"

I can forgive spelling errors but separating a word and making up a complete new one made me do a double take!

Was a bit embarrassed once in a cafe when ds1 shouted "Muuuum .... that's not how you spell spaghetti, is it?" - menu offered Spargetty Bolornaise.

The ones I hate are the deliberate "hilarious" signs - like when you see a hairdressing salon called "Krew Kutz" or the like. And yes - I need to get a life!

I've seen 'corn beef' on menus a couple of times recently - maybe I should start visiting more upmarket cafes

There's one in my town which proudly offers "Burgers, Chips, Pizza's". I love that lack of consistency.

Our corner shop put a new awning up a couple of months ago, with NEWSPAPERS, GROCERIES, OFF-LISENSE printed on the front.

Last week they replaced it. It now reads: NEWSPAPERS, GROCERES, OFF-LICENCE.

So they're trying...

How do you spell 'eighteenth' then

On ebay recently I saw several variations of khaki such as karki, kharki, carky and even carkey.

I regularly pass a shop called Perfect Partys and it drives me mad every single time!

On the street where I used to live, is a fancy dress shop called ?Fancies Pants? - which I don?t really get at all, and next door was a paper shop run by a little old man, which had a handwritten sign in the window (was there for years) which said ?Newspeppers and Magasine?s?
Brilliant!

It makes me wince slightly in the fruit and veg shop near me because they seem to know that strawberry loses the y when pluralised but it still gets written as 'strawberrie's'.