I have just telephoned a shop for the sole purpose of -

[MamaVonG]

telling them they had a spelling mistake on their website

and MamaG I love you just a little bit more tonight because of this thread you lunatic!

ROFL!

Anyone else wondering if it's quipaholic or quipoholic now?

TW, I have the same disease...I can never resist a joke (I have to sit on my hands so often when I read serious threads on here!).

Excellent pedanting in the face of danger, MamaG. Carry on.

also excellent quipping in the face of armed lady,threadie.

(quipoholic) looks wrong, but is right, I believe.

I once emailed a wild animal park to suggest they should alter the spelling in "feed the lamas"

They never replied

(They did change it though!)

Now it says "lamb Llama and deer feeding" - do you suppose that capital L is aimed at me?

(If so I hope the safety catch is on)

there was a sign up by me recently on a hairdressers - 're-style and blow dry 20% off on Mondays with selective stylists'

lol threadworm!!

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Oh my word - I have found a set of kindred spirits - thanks Heated.

D'you know I once asked to see a store manager (well known large food retailer beginning with S) for his apostrophe abuse.

DH had a great aunt who used to correct his thank you letters and send them back. She also used to correct any mistakes in fliers/adverts/calendars/any post at all with red pen and return it to the sender. She was barking .

Goodness me how can you pollute the country side with flying pieces of china??

Isnt it better to go shoot a bird? At least then you can put dinner on the table...

I almost complained in Waitrose this morning when I saw a sign for 'Anenomes' . So many people say it like that too, and it really gets on my nerves. Same as 'marshmellow' - it's 'marshmallow' (have trained the DCs). And 'Meshersmitt', when it should be 'Messerschmitt'.

Did you get DS1 to type your entry on the outsmarting thread then cod?

"Re: Magistrates' Court

I KNEW there would be a magistrate on a thread like this. I think it should be magistrates' court as you only rarely have one alone."

(I disagree btw - the court doesn't belong to the magistrates, it's just where they hang out - so no apostrophe.)

Perfectly reasonable course of action. I regularly pop into pubs to draw the bar staff's attention to the misspelling of "Guinness" on their outside boards!

Jackie, it always comes out meshershmit with me, I just can't get it right

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Look what opening smartarse mag typed!

They should get Jamie Oliver to campaign against supermarkets' apostrophe abuse, instead of wittering on about their relatively unimportant abuse of chickens.

I for one only ever use free-range apostrophes.

I hope they are also organic, thready?

And fair-traded.

Thready?? Thready?????

You have always been THREADIE to me, and you always shall be.

{grin} Perhaps I'll give Threadie a twirl soon.