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

[SalemSaberhagen]

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!

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

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

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

It drives me crazy every time I see it.

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

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

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

A friend sent me this.

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.

LOL

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!

Unrelated, but I really like your username OP.

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

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!

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!

Haha Lindt, that reminds me of this:

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!

SoWhite love it!

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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 ...