One minute(s) or ten minutes?

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

My friend sent me this today saying ‘You’d think they could at least proofread a poster about reading’. I kept staring at it, wondering why I couldn’t see the mistake. I asked her what I was missing and she replied, ‘It says one minutes!’

I said I could see why she thought that, but that the clock is supposed to be a zero - meaning it actually says 10 minutes. She thinks I’m wrong and the clock is just a clock. I say there’s no way a school is encouraging parents to read to their children for one minute(s) a day!

YABU - She’s right; that’s just a clock
YANBU - You’re right; the clock is a zero

Yes, the clock is a zero.

It’s clearly ten minutes.

Definitely supposed to be a zero. Otherwise it would be 1 minute, the fact it's minutes, plural means it's 10.

I can't imagine anyone agreeing with your friend.

It says 10. YANBU.

Yep, clock is zero.

Who shares a story for 1 minute anyway? 🙄🤣

As if they're saying you should read to your child for only one minute

Yep 10 minutes

Plus the clock is at 10 past the hour it looks like, further showing 10 minutes?

As a reception teacher I probably said the phrase “reading for 10 minutes a day” 5000 times in my life. Your friend is wrong, it’s definitely 100% meant to be 10 minutes!

@User1511

Who shares a story for 1 minute anyway? 🙄🤣

Exactly - I’ve heard of a short story, but that’s ridiculous

It's meant to be 10 and that's what the designer intended, clearly, because what school encourages 1 minute reading.

But it's poorly designed and looks like 1 minutes.

@CertainGecko

It's meant to be 10 and that's what the designer intended, clearly, because what school encourages 1 minute reading.

But it's poorly designed and looks like 1 minutes.

I don't think it looks like 1 minute(s) at all

Your friend is proper daft. It's 10 minutes and the clock is the zero.

Quite clearly 10 minutes, your friend is a Wally !

I have to confess, when I just glanced at it quickly I thought it said 1 minutes as well.

But 10 minutes does make more sense given the context.

Its 10 minutes - there are even 10 minutes showing on the hands on the clock!

10 minutes makes sense, and I'm sure that's what they were going for...but I saw 1 minutes first.

So not proof reading but mild design error. They could have made it more zero shaped and bold on the lines to connect it better to the 1.

Took me a minutes to see it but yes the clock is a zero

Who reads to their kid for 1 minute a day? You'd not bother if it was that little!

10 , your right

It’s not particularly well done, the outline of the clock needs to be darker, but of course it’s ten minutes

Well the kerning between the numbers is slightly off. But she's a wally. Most people would figure out it's 10minutes.

Oh god is it world book day again? Tell me its before the 8th of April so I don't need to fork out for costumes.

Your friend could clearly do with her 10 minutes reading a day