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Pedants' corner

Pedantry challenge

61 replies

MardyBra · 28/06/2012 14:17

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?

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tangofan · 12/07/2012 13:51

I know a Hairdressers called "Yummy Mummy's" and I can't decide if it's supposed to be "Yummy Mummies" and they've just got it wrong or it is supposed to give the impression that it is owned by one "Yummy" mummy...
It's (obviously) very child friendly and set up so that mums can have their hair done whilst their kids are occupied in the playroom provided, suggesting that it should be "Yummy Mummies"...Also, the main hairdresser is not even a mum.
I'm over-thinking this a tad, aren't I?!! Well, that's why it's posted here...
But it drives me nuts that I don't know whether to judge them or not....

cuntflapwankbadger · 13/07/2012 13:01

I have the joy of writing copy for ads at times, and you'd be shocked at the amount of people who insist on inappropriate apostrophes even if you point out the mistake.

50ShadesOfGreggs · 13/07/2012 20:49

dashing if I had to get a bumper sticker, it would be this one! :)

TheOneWithTheHair · 13/07/2012 21:07

I saw this at a farm in the Lake District and was so shocked I took a 'photo.

"When a ewe has had more than one lamb they are put into individual pens as soon as posible so that the lambs don't whander away from there mother making sure that they get ample amounts of milk and bond with there mother. "

I showed it to a fellow pedant and she recoiled.

peachypips · 13/07/2012 21:24

This will make you weep. I was unwell in Nov so allowed my DH to have our Christmas photo card printed without checking it. I am well known as a pendant amongst family, friends and work colleagues.
The Christmas cards that had to be sent to everyone I know said on the front:
"Merry Christmas from The Pip's".
DH refused to not use them as they had cost thirty quid. I was sick in my mouth a little when I realised that all my friends would think I didn't know how to use apostrophes.

GrimmaTheNome · 13/07/2012 23:05

Ah, I'm sure your real friends would have been momentarily shocked but then impressed that you'd obviously got your DH to organise the Xmas cards.

peachypips · 14/07/2012 18:42

I do hope so!

iklboo · 14/07/2012 18:49

A lunch at work announced there would be 'Crudities & dips'. How did they even know I'd be going?

Roseformeplease · 14/07/2012 18:52

On the wall, spray painted outside the English Faculty of my University, "Education is a rite not a privilege".

MardyBra · 14/07/2012 19:18

Maybe they intended to be ironic, Rose.

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WMittens · 14/07/2012 19:59

It is a rite:

A rite is an established, ceremonious, usually religious act. Rites in this sense fall into three major categories:
rites of passage, generally changing an individual's social status, such as ... graduation*.

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