Pedantry challenge

[MardyBra]

I've just seen a shop advertising "pannini's" for sale. If we were playing pedantry bingo, surely that would score maximum points available for one word. Can anyone beat that?

HappyinHerts Yes - we have pupils at my school with apostrophes in their name. D'Andre and Na'sean to name but two. But obviously I get your point about James :) Just being, errrr, pedantic.

Maybe Thorntons do do it on purpose! I once asked the lady to ice 'Happy Birthday Jayde', and made sure I told her it was Jayde with a Y. Now, even if you'd never seen it written before, would you have chosen to spell it 'Jayed' . . . twice, even after I spelled it out the second time. My sister and I had to leave the shop. The lady with the icing gun was getting so irate and we were crying with inappropriate laughter.

Ah, I reckon it'll be one of you lot then that had scribbled out the apostrophe in the "umbrella's for sale" sign at City Thameslink Station this week? I'd wanted to but never had time before my train, is it ok that I skipped a little as I grinned onto the escalator that someone else cared so much to actually make the time to do it?!

'Ladie's Breifs' at a market stall.

Miranda - I'm pretty sure apostrophes are in KS2 National Curriculum. My DD certainly learnt them properly.

I'm not sure she'd ever heard the I before E rule - I have my own version, which is 'I before E except when it isn't' because the 'before c' doesn't work consistently.

I'm not sure she'd ever heard the I before E rule - I have my own version, which is 'I before E except when it isn't' because the 'before c' doesn't work consistently.

And, according to QI, there are more exceptions than words that follow the rule.

actually I doubt there's many at all which follow 'before c'. Whoops.

'Deliveries in this door, accept on Mondays' always makes me chuckle.

It is hung on a door at the local funeral director!

Driving past a travellers' site today.

Blackboard outside with

Duck Eeg's (yes, really)

and

Jack Rusell pupie's for sale (I am not joking)

It was a safety hazard for pedants driving by.

Not an apostrophe one but sign in a pub near me saying "drugs will not be toilerated".

Drives me mad.

Plus the field I work in - MBA's and CV's....

Tesco had jubilee bunting hanging up with "Maam" on one of the flags.

Mind you, they annoy me anyway as the little plastic things you use to separate your shopping on the conveyor belt say "Dont forget your clubcard". I'm sure they can print apostrophes. If they can't, they should be able to!

No worse than 'Ten items or less...'

There's a Japanese music group called Funky Monkey Babys. It drives me crazy every time I see it which is a lot as they are very popular.

My DS (10) hasn't been taught the i before c rule so I taught him it. But in my book it goes "i before e except after c and in the word weird".

I misspelled weird until I was 38 and an AMERICAN pointed it out to me - aaargh the shame

And the word 'weight'. And 'height'. And 'freight', 'eight', 'abseil', 'protein', 'foreign'...

I always learnt it as "i before e when the sound is ee". That's why it doesn't work for "weight", "freight" etc.

'Protein'?

er...

Protein has the 'ee' sound, but is 'ie' not 'ei'. Unless you pronounce it protayn?

Protein has the 'ee' sound, but is 'ie' not 'ei'

you mean it's ei not ie. Similarly, one of the amino acids found in proteins is 'cysteine' - pronounced 'sisteen'

Then of course there are words where the e and the i are part of different syllables e.g atheist which you often see misspelled, presumably because of people's misplaced adherence to the 'rule'.

Bath Matt's anyone? Always want to ask "bath Matt's what?" happyinhertsSorry to say that we know of someone called J'aime (pronounced Gem)-an affectation shurely!

Lands' End (sic) clothing sent me a catalogue the other day. It went straight into recycling. I suppose it could be the end of all the lands. But then wouldn't that be Lands' Ends?

Grammar: the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.

Saw that recently and lived it

'The company is named from its sailboat heritage, after Land's End, but the misplaced apostrophe in the company name was a typographical error that the founder (Gary Comer) could not afford to change, as promotional materials had already been printed.'

Surely they could afford to change it now though, especially if some overpedantic people ditch their catalogue over an apostrophe.