How did this get all the way onto the shelf

[LittlePotteryBird]

My son came back with this gift for his nan today. She’s as pedantic as me so she will hate it 😂

But how does a mistake like this slip past all the stages of manufacture without anyone picking it up?

How many more would they have sold with the correct punctuation ?

I think your answer may lie in that answer.

I saw ‘draw’ instead of ‘drawer’ used on a product for sale in a shop for the first time the other day. I was so surprised I actually pointed it out to my DD and took a picture 😂

I think it says something about the QC of the companies producing and stocking these items and that does matter to me as a consumer.

I think it says something about the QC of the companies producing and stocking these items and that does matter to me as a consumer.

You can only have QC if you care about the Q.

And not caring about the Q hasn't lost Easyjet any customers. So other companies look and learn.

You’re probably right, although I’ve never seen SPAG errors on an Easyjet advert and if I did I’d definitely worry about what shoddy work was going on that the public weren’t expected to see.

A lot of this crap is produced in non-English speaking countries, mostly Chinese sweatshops. We've all seen the hoodies and sweatshirts being worn by tourists which have nonsense English on them. There are entire instagram accounts devoted to them.

No proofreading, no editing, no oversight from English speakers. But people don't care because they are cheap.

This was in my surgery waiting room. It didn't fill me with confidence!

My daughter bought some super cheap pjs from a seconds shop recently with the slogan " beleive in dreams". They were bound for Asda. Would not like to have been the qc person who let that slip through!

Exactly. Judiciously selected to accord with the calibre of person that refers to a grandmother as 'nan'. 🤢

My favourite one was spotted in my local pharmacy - Diabete's.

I want to know why 'medications' doesn't require an apostrophe 😂.

Oh do jog on.

There's nothing wrong with Nan or Nana

They ran out!!

Talk about stereotyping! ‘Calibre of person’ indeed… 🙄
I’m pretty sure that there are plenty of people who call their grandmothers ‘Nan’, who also know what to do with an apostrophe.
That aside, I raise you this, op. The irony of of it being a Wordsearch, too!

That's awful, for a start the OP's son bought it.

 I'm genuinely shocked by that!

@sidebirds that's beyond snobby though. All of us here are grammar snobs but that's going too far!

Your objection understood 👍🏾. My own, incidentally, is not on grounds of supposed social class (in case this was assumed); rather it is an antipathy to the legitimisation of the inchoate language of young children, unable to form words properly, in the language of adults. For what it's worth, 'mum' or 'mummy' are equally to be avoided. 🤨

Nothing less than mater shall be accepted 🙄

If you can't even spell "jet" correctly, then it raises worries about whether you can fly and maintain one.

You make an invaluable point. I have 'lobbied' Mumsnet on the question for many years. 🤔

Now now 😂

Matersnet.com

Could catch on!

How rude!

@Cornishbellenow I really, really want my own pair

This is the silliest thing I've (sorry - 'I have') read in a while. Are you really suggesting that in order to be a person of high calibre, one must call one's relatives 'grandmother', 'father' and so on? Hilarious!

I’m genuinely disappointed that it doesn’t ask the reader to inform the nurse’s. Sort of ruins the cadence. Or cadence’s.