This one is a shocker!

[mrsbabookaloo]

In WHSmith, a shelf label. An official, printed, WHSmith shelf label, says "Stationary Gifts".

What, gifts that don't go anywhere?

This in WHSmith, which chiefly sells, STATIONERY! Come on guys...e for envelope...

This one almost prompts me to start muttering about the country going to the dogs.

....(MrsB checks frantically for typos or other errors before posting....)

aaarggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!

Hilarious! Did you say anything to them?

M&S schoolwear depts have some lovely signs with "mens'" and "womens'" all over them at the moment.

gah !

No, I didn't say anything. It didn't cross my mind. They would have looked at me blankly, methinks.

Or maybe I'm just being a horrible stereotyper and in fact one of them would have said, "Oh yes, it's awful isn't it, I've reported it to Head Office"

this is similar to my reaction to a bit of signage in local Waterstone's a few weeks back - on teenage section - it said 'Bored of teenage books?" - I ripped it off shelf and was going to point it out (it was an obviously in store sign) but dh stopped me !

Good one.

the best one I've seen lately is in a ballet shop: "DIEING SERVICE AVAILABLE".

I asked them how much to knock off my neighbour, pointing at the notice, but the owner didn't seem in the least amused.

fircone

Waterstone's MaryAnn?

Tsk

ok please explain.

all of the above

thanks

i want to learn

I don't get the Waterstone's one

My post or MaryAnn's?

MaryAnn's

I think it should be bored by or bored with.

Should have been "Bored by Teenage Books?"

Goes along with "should have" not "should of" etc

Aha! Lightbulb moment! Now I understand.

Thank you

Yes. I am finally learning.

Hmm, I don't think there's anything wrong with "bored of"...language changes and I think this is acceptable now. Feel free to disagree.

I didn't see the prob with this either, but I thought it was the fact that it said "teenage books" rather than books for teenagers, implying that the books themselves were teenagers.

MaryAnn, come back from Barbary Lane and explain yourself!

I typed a reply based on the 'teenage books' theory, but then deleted it without posting when others mentioned the 'of', which I totally missed.

I really shouldn't travel into this neighbourhood without a chaperone, my grammar is appalling.

My granddad is nice though.

but Waterstone's has apostrophe in it

Does it?

Sorry. Please see previous post re chaperone.

Never actually looked that closely at one of their signs.

That apostrophe just looks wrong.

was thinking about this:

Recycled toilet paper

Seems wrong. Should it not be:

Toilet paper made from recyled products.

What say you pedants?

SaintGeorge - I always wonder about it too - hah ha -what if they've made a huge error there too !!!

I saw "sheperds's pie" on some beef mince from Sainsbury last week!

Ah, now are you complaining about the rogue apostrophe, the extra letter, the missing letter or (and this is the worst offence IMO) using beef instead of lamb?

So many things wrong with that one