to think someone should have proofread this card before printing and selling it?

[ChickenVindaloo2]

Being sold in Iceland!

I was thinking there wouldn't be that many people in Iceland requiring an English Language Mothering Sunday card, bit of a niche market really.

Ouch, ouch, ouch. Just... ouch!

My mum would love this card! We share a mutual love of pedantry though.

DS once received a card which said 'Hooray your 7! on the front.

I already have a lovely handmade card for my Mam. I want to buy this just so she can have a rant with her new improved eyesight. (She refused to admit how bad it was for ages).

Yeah, I thought at first you meant Iceland the country!

and there was me about to say that I didn't think Icelandic had apostrophes.

Is it because Mums go to Iceland's ?

Brilliant! My mil wouldn't notice the typo. If my mum we're were still alive I'd definitely get it for her.

I meant that to say Mum's go to Iceland's...

epic fail.

Isn't it sad that the first thing I thought when I saw it was "yipeee, this will make a great thread"?

It's interesting because despite how rude MNers often are about American English I haven't seen any examples of this kind of mistake since moving to the US.

I'd started noticing it quite frequently on signs in the U.K.

I wonder why?

I really want to get that for my muvver.
She'd probably throw it straight in the fire.

Media junkie! OP writes for the fucking Daily Fail.
fuck off Daily Fail this would make a shit article.

I wish, DJ! I think you need to use "advanced search" a bit more!

Er... off topic... but, it's copy editing that was required on this, not proof reading. Proof reading is checking the setting of the galley copy (printer's proof copy) for typesetting and transliteration mistakes, misuse of paper volume, etc. Checking the text for appropriate language, spelling, grammar, etc, comes before typesetting or publication, that's copy editing. We typesetters are picky about our jargon.
Retreating back under my typographer's stone...

Happy Mother's Day mum! This year I've got you an excuse for a good old rage and a rant that will last you for the rest of the day. And then into the following week when you take it into school to show your colleagues!

I'm going to have to buy it, best present ever

I once saw a Get Well car d that said "Hope your feeling better "

Do they have Mother's Day in Iceland? Why do they do cards in English?

Want it, it would annoy the hell out of my English teacher mother!

Ah just tested my Y6 on her grammar. And she got it! All set for SATS.

Could it be a brilliant marketing ploy to corner the niche market of winding up English teachers?

I need to get one for my mum. We share a love of pedantry...

My mum and I also share the urge to get the savage red pen out and use it - I'm going to be at Iceland the minute it opens tomorrow!

Wouldn't picking the flower kill it though?

Regardless of crimes against the poor apostrophe.

Oh bugger.

Got it now.
Iceland, as in shop, not Iceland as in country.

Noted, tabby. Many thanks!