To think that chester draws isn't as bad as

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'chester freezer'

I'm not defending chester draws, but at least I can understand how it happened.

I've just seen someone talk about their 'chester freezer' on Facebook. There's no excuse.

I was slightly horrified, when sitting outside DS's classroom on a parent/beacher evening, to have to sit opposite an "inspirational" poster with the slogan "Standing on the shoulder's of giant's". Have to admit I didn't dare say anything to the teacher, but for ages I was plotting some way of sneaking in and erasing or covering up the apostrophes.

A few years ago someone on EBay advertised a ' rabbit bowel'

I added if it came with droppings and they didn't get it at all

I’ve often seen ‘rest bite’ on a forum for carers of people with dementia.

There’s some logic to it - the poor things are desperate for a ‘bite’ of rest.

My favourite furniture one was a ‘chez lounge’ - (chaise longue).

In the ‘should be no excuse’ category was an email from our MP (female LD in case anyone instantly assumes Evil Male Tory) saying that the council was going to ‘kerb’ anti social behaviour.

I was an Early Years teacher so Grammar and spelling were fairly basic but I sometimes had to comment on Childcare students' observations of children. Some of them were barely literate but I wasn't supposed to comment on that aspect. These are the Teaching Assistants of today. Not all of them were completely unreadable, of course, but one I worked with who was lovely and very good at her job always said was instead of were and made basic mistakes.

She had a Child Development degree by the way.

My new house has a on sweet.

Since retiring I have been invigilating exams. There is a poster outside the Sports Hall with a label saying 'Rounder's'. It has been there for a few years now.

My job often includes updating patients’ medical notes with details of any food they have managed to eat that day.

I have a colleague who, one day last week, recorded a number of elderly ladies having eaten a strawberry mouse at lunchtime.

Oh a verbal one. Went to the local community centre to give blood and the local dance class had been moved from the big hall to the little hall

One woman was a moaning a bit about this, and telling all the Mums that came in the class had been moved

Apparently as they were blood 'doh- ning' in their hall

@MenaiMna

Wondering for wandering Otterman, pooffy, foot stall for ottoman, pouffe, footstool Bone apple teeth for bon appetit Lack toast into lent for lactose intolerant In suit for en suite Soffa for sofa Dinning for dining And additionally: ect for etc. !!!

I just laughed out loud at poffee! 😂

My family and I used to call them that - as a joke! So seeing someone saying it in all seriousness makes me chuckle.

There was a local newspaper article about a house fire and they printed a correction a few days later...so they could mention that 'the old pouffe who started the fire'.

I'm paraphrasing, but it was something along those lines.
I'll try to find it...

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll, there are quite a lot of interesting threads in Pedants' Corner about the "less/fewer" thing (a couple of years ago now, when a supermarket was erroneously forced into correcting its signage) Also an English language journal article which was published around the time, can't remember the name but something like "Grammar mistakes which aren't mistakes" iirc.

The less/fewer thing is more complex than the difference between countable/uncountable objects.

Captain- I remember having an NQT English teacher on my summer school team and having to reprint every single one of her student reports because she used "could of" to encourage students to use different tools etc.
Ten years or more ago now. Hopefully, she doesn't still do it!

I see it quite often, here and elsewhere. Tow the line.
It should be 'toe the line'.
www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-toe2.htm

There's a hairdressers in my town whose name always sets my teeth on edge.
The name is a play on words, based on the phrase 'airs and graces'.
You'd think it would be 'Hairs and graces', but no, it's 'Hares and graces'. Why? It makes no sense whatsoever!

My family and h’s parents called a pouffe a pouffeeee. I think it comes from not wanting to say something that sounds like poof. I remember watching changing rooms years ago and Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen said to handy Andy to make a pouffe and they had a big discussion over how to say it. Andy insisted it was pouffeee as you couldn’t go into a shop and say ‘I’d like a poof please’.

On a CV, i once read 'I worked at the cold face'. 😬

The CV went in the bin...

Thanks, Scorpio - intriguing! I'll look that up.

Sir Gawain and EatsShootsandRuns

It’s actually ‘Hoist with my [his] own petard*

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Please substitute asterisk for inverted comma. 😆

Loose or lose? Who cares?

I also hate the misuse of the apostrophe. Especially at markets. Green Bean's! Tomato's.

They are two different words with different meanings... you should care!

Omg if I saw teachers teaching children incorrect spelling and grammar I'd be straight round to the head's office, never mind keeping quiet!

@waterlego

Sir Gawain and EatsShootsandRuns

It’s actually ‘Hoist with my [his] own petard*

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I stand corrected. Thank you.

Good old William Shakespeare.

WeBuilt- despite being an English teacher for 23 years, I didn't really grasp the intricacies, but it was interesting! (And made me realise you never stop learning!)

I am properly cracking up reading these! Hilarious!