Selfridges. I expect more!

[ciele]

Trafford Centre Selfridges display a huge sign, STATIONARY. So I stopped stock still as requested and noticed a huge load of STATIONERY for sale.
I know I'm a pedant but this is writ in huge letters in a superior store.
No response from Twitter!
AIBU?

No they have not responded. Tbh that's why I put it on here...I thought they were ignorant, in both senses of the word.
I was also fuming about their tiny waisted mannequins but I might save that for another thread.

"The OP calls it Twit, not Twitter."

Where?

Step away from the ellipses op.

Now, did you take a picture?! I would have done. Get it tweeted and I'll RT it for you. My followers love stuff like that all as pedantic as me

The OP calls it Twit, not Twitter."

Where?

Exactly. This thread is seriously confusing, as I have absolutely no idea what some are on about!

Rose...

Disco...twit?

Ah Pedantry, my favourite.
I'd have grabbed a staff member and pointed out that the sign was incorrect.

Disco everyone is taking the mickey out of everyone else. Grammar threads always look like this.

Writ-past tense of write

But you said "is writ", not "was writ", so present tense surely.

No idea if I'm right and don't really care.

Thanks Pedestriana. I wish I had taken a photo.

Well someone did. Typed in Trafford centre Selfridges on Twitter and a picture was one of the first things to come up. From yesterday.

Funny!

This is very funny. I don't even care who is right tbh!
Surely the past tense of write is wrote? Or am I totally illiterate?

You can have 'is written' and 'was written'. So surely the tense is not decided by the word.

Past participle not past tense. Modern pp would be "written". Archaic pp would be "writ".

(Caveat: educated in the 1980s so nothing I say about English grammar is all that reliable).

I was also educated in the 80s. Think I should have said archaic not past tense.
Sincere apologies...not!

This is the funniest thread ever. OP, I understood your OP and thought it was funny and no YANBU. Everyone else is just adding to the entertainment.

"Writ in huge letters" is a play on the phrase/concept "writ large" which is very much in current usage today.

The OP said she "stopped stock still as requested" because she was in front of a sign that said "stationary" which means "completely still" so she was joking about obeying the command on the sign.

I get you OP .

Your OH wasn't the fella doing the sadface story about being sexually harassed at the perfume counter in that self same shop in the DM last week was he?

Best daily mail sad face was Sam and Nat yesterday. Nat had 4 kids and didn't want to have sex with Sam (ever again it seems) but having seen Sam......