To think Asda need a kick up the arse for this?

[Caribou58]

Seen in a number of branches this week...

Dad’s what doesn’t do what be halves? Or should I even ask?

fredsheeran , I think the 'bath's and sinks' randomness is because so many people have never been properly taught something so relatively simple - they think there's some great mystique to it, so they just bung them in here and there in the vague hope that some will be right.

I still remember the first lesson on apostrophes at maybe 7. The teacher asked whether anyone knew where we should put them, and the girl who was very full of herself, always knew everything and was always first to shoot her hand up, did.

'We were playing with the boys,' she said. 'It goes before the S in boys.'
Very stern face and voice from teacher. 'No! That is precisely where we don't put it!'
Full-of-herself was temporarily crushed, but that certainly dinged it into my head.

Urgh that’s terrible. Can’t believe someone was actually paid to design and make and market that t shirt, and not once along the way did anyone have basic literacy skills! That’s appalling.

This is why grammar is important, although some people seem to think those that correct grammar are just being "pedants".

Eugh, there really is no excuse for this in a business the size of Asda!

I recently emailed an acquaintance on Facebook who sells her own Crafty things. She launched a new line of cards which read Congratulations, your engaged!

I debated whether to tell her but it didn't look like she'd made too many yet so I sent her a really short polite email, just in a 'they're lovely but thought I should mention' way.

Her response was along the lines of 'Ok thanks Hun but I prefer them like this xx'.

Now that bothered me so much I wish I'd not emailed in the first place. I just wanted to message her again to go 'What! Why the fuck would you want it to be wrong you mental bint' but I didn't. It was hard to not though.

Aaaargh. I hate apostrophes in the wrong places. I have a DC with a name that is often spelled wrong, and that doesn’t bother me as much as wrong apostrophes. My phone added one to ‘pizzas’ last week in a message to DH (as in ‘do you fancy pizzas for tea?) and it bugged me so much!

I'm going to copy the image and show it to my low ability Set 3 Year 5 English class after break. I'm 95% sure they will know what's wrong with it straight away.

My Y5 ds certainly would, I showed him this t-shirt in Asda last week just so I could hear him going "Argh! Rogue apostrophe!" (Yeah, we're a barrel of laughs.)

as in ‘do you fancy pizzas for tea?

Why would you pluralise pizza though?!?

Isn't it like pasta? Paella? Lasagne? Sheep?

gettinglikemymother ouch! But what I don't understand is the logic of putting it in one word but not another immediately after. Why does 'bath's' seem right to the writer's eye, but not 'sink's'? Surely if you put an apostrophe in one but not the other, you're definitely getting one of them wrong - is it a bet-hedging thing?

I don't remember ever really learning to spell words; I just recognised them in my mind's eye from seeing the shape of the typed word in books. It's depressing to think that young children subconsciously seeking word patterns and grammar rules from the world around them are having the wrong things imprinted into their brains.

@FredSheeran we used to have a shop not far from us that was called Rug's and Carpets. Made me twitch every time I passed it - sure;y they must have realised that one of them had to be wrong. We also have a shop in town called Burtons Bakery's

I don't remember ever really learning to spell words; I just recognised them in my mind's eye from seeing the shape of the typed word in books. It's depressing to think that young children subconsciously seeking word patterns and grammar rules from the world around them are having the wrong things imprinted into their brains.

Urgh, I've just read that back and it sounds insanely pompous. I didn't mean to sound like Jacob Rees Mogg...

SeriousSimon

"Her response was along the lines of 'Ok thanks Hun but I prefer them like this xx'."

OMG! 🙈 There's just no helping some people.

Ive moaned on their Facebook, can't see anything on Twitter though.

That's what you get when so many companies lay off their proofreaders because they're 'not necessary'.

That apostrophe is causing me actual pain.

serious my phone made it look like pizza’s.

I've seen this posted on twin groups and thought it was cute if my husband drank beer

Didn't notice the wrong punctuation

Double glazing company near me- big advert in the window "keep the drafts out". I had to tell them. The lady was very grateful and they got changed PDQ!

That t-shirt is nowhere to be seen on their website. I suspect they've already removed it.

There is a clothes shop near me that sells Lady’s clothing

The type of person that finds that shirt amusing wouldn’t notice the misplaced apostrophe.

Can’t believe someone was actually paid to design and make and market that t shirt

If it's any help, only the last job in that list is likely to have been remunerated remotely meaningfully...

It must be very exclusive Schmoochy.

There's a firm of solicitors near me and the sign outside their office says they deal with, amongst other things, "litigration". With that sort of attention to detail I wouldn't employ them.

I saw this in my local garden centre! A spelling error and a grammar mistake on one sign!