To expect a cafe to be able to spell cafe au lait?

[Orangeanddemons]

On a picture on wall in said cafe. Spelt caff iau latt. Seriously.

What is wrong with these people?

My local caff sells 'sandwhiches' 'milkshacks' and 'sconnes'. I would stop going there but the bacon barms are amazing. Apparently the saturday girl made up the sign and she hasn't gotten around to changing it. The offers to do it for her have been overwhelming. :o

Oh and as a young lass working in a gastro pub. I used to get Mediterranean wrong all the time. (Thank you auto correct). I didnt feel too bad though. The amount of local students I asked who got it wrong was amazing. Not to mention broccoli, Bolognese, lasagne etc.

beast I speak fluent Italian and good French. Maybe that is my new, go to pedantry excuse. I am a linguist.

MrsT It's certainly mine :)

DH was given a mug with lots of cricketing-related words on it. You know the sort of thing: "howzat", "wicket" and of course "bales".

Now it's perfectly reasonably that someone without a cricket-obsessed partner might not know how to spell "bails", but you'd think that if someone was making a product specifically for people who are fanatics, they might just take a little time to get the spelling right. The fanatics tend to notice these things.

My other favourite: a birthday card with the legend inside "Enjoy you're birthday". It was the last one left, so presumably quite a popular choice...

I am indeed a cunning linguist.
I also took it upon myself to complete every SRA card in the box (remember those?) at primary school.

Nope, cat, I must be too old. What's SRA?

At work - Camel Flarge trousers
Ill Eagles (seen lurking on the motorway)
Amber Lynn - (stolen portrait of..)

School trip print out - on the bottem shelf - I did point this out to the classroom assistant as a misprint - she shook her head and said that she spent half her time jumping up and correcting the misspellings of the teacher.

Oh wow! SRA I remember those. I was the highest in the school < proud>. An achievement I've never since managed to match

I don't remember being taught grammar at school either, and it's something I struggle with as an adult (despite the fact I write as a hobby), I couldn't even point to what is wrong with the sentence I spent some time, to my childrens' horror and to the detriment of my thumb nail, scraping that apostrophe off. ... unless it's the misplaced apostrophe? Which I've just noticed.

A local fishing/clothing & fireworks shop advertises "Ace Fireworks Sold All Year for Bonfire Night, New Year, Partie's & Anniversarie's". I cringe every time I walk past!

Café O'Lay is a charming alt spelling

It's the misplaced apostrophe.

What is SRA??? stamps feet

SRA was a set of endless cards covering comprehension, spelling and grammar that we used to give to pupils in the eighties to keep them quiet on Friday afternoon. It stood for Scholastic something or other.

beast, I have googled SRA - stands for Science Research Associates. However, it was all about reading, comprehension and grammar exercises. Seems they have been knocking about in schools since 1960ish. I was at primary school in the 80s.
Orange, I think we would have have been fierce rivals bestest friends at school.
Ruth, burn the place.

I am still bitter I didn't get any recognition for my ridiculous swottiness SRA achievement.

Yes, Science Research Associates. A friend of mine used to call it, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Workcard. SMP Maths was the other thing.
Talking of the eighties, my husband once asked for an aperitif in a restaurant. Waitress looked horrifird and came back with senior waitress to see if he really needed a pair of teeth.

A café in Uxbridge (a fair few years ago) used to advertise 'Bean on toast'

I always thought that a bit mean.

On behalf of all primary teachers of the 1980s, I applaud your achievement, catsize. I would also like to apologise for the boredom caused.

Been on toast would have been worse!
Aperitif!

Emily, thank you. I actually really enjoyed them.
Applause on behalf of all teachers, and not just miserable witch Mrs M. is more than a geeky girl of the 80s could have asked for.Please ignore poor use of tense and preposition at end of sentence

And inability to use strikethrough thingy

I loved SRA cards! Wish they would bring them back, there were days I hated the topic on the card I had to do, but the achievement on getting to the next band was great.

There was a TV error recently on the Kirstie Allsopp programme (probably got her name wrong, one L or 2?) - the little heading for the next crafty section was "Kid's presents" - presumably one lucky child getting loads, though a bit unfortunate for the others as I think there was more than one child around.

I saw a BBC spelling mistake last Christmas - the little advert thing that comes up said, "Absolutley Fabulous". You'd think our licence fees would mean they could afford to spell check...

Velvet, cup of chino!

There's a beauty salon near MIL's which is, apparently, "fully equipted". Makes me giggle every time.