L'Chateau

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Please can someone confirm this is wrong! There's a wedding company with this name in my town and I'm getting really angry about it 🤬

Perhaps they're trying to be 'gender neutral' with their L'Chateau.

Maybe it should be "The McGrissy's" as in the McGrissy's house. I'm always up for a random apostrophe

Then it would be The McGrissys' wouldn't it? Because the people are plural.

'The McGrissy House' would probably be better than bringing random apostrophe's into play.

Your phone hates you.
Apostrophe's. 😂

Don’t forget the McGrissies 😉

Or the letter ‘h’.

It was, indeed, a joke - but thank you for noticing my humble existence

The was a cafe in our building called The Plaza only the sign said Plazza. Made me want to scream

Except when it's not, like Le Havre - there are two types of silent H in French!

It could be that Le Chateau is already taken by another company (sorry for the lack of circumflex). Horrible though to think that the grammar doesn't matter.

Even worse than a business, we know somebody with a child called Issac, but pronounced like Isaac. I get that people may not be certain of the correct spelling of a name like that... but never to have had a spare 3 seconds to Google it during 9 months of pregnancy?!

What's even weirder is that I might have understood a tiny bit more if they'd spelled it 'Izak', 'Eyezac' or similar, without bothering to check; but where else in English is a double-S ever pronounced with a Z sound?

I see your L'Chateau and raise you an SS Great Britian.

Only in names - and then only in certain names. Flossie and Bessie get proper pronunciation, but Isabel and Oswald seem to think that the s=z sounds in their names entitles them to abuse the double ss in their nicknames. Why is Issie pronounced Izzie? Why isn’t it written Izzie? Similarly why does Oswald pronounce Ossie as Ozzy? Why not just write it Ozzy? Meanwhile Oscar doesn’t get his properly written nickname - Ossie - pronounced properly.

But would you not then sigh and choose a different name instead, rather than just mangling the same word and making yourself look illiterate? Wouldn't you also risk being confused for them - so as well as the annoyance of getting each others' messages, if they got a terrible reputation for something, it would also reflect badly on you?

When celebrities have to change their name to join Equity, as there's already somebody with the same name as them registered, apart from one particularly odious 'personality' and children's book writer I can think of, they don't just keep the same name anyway but butcher it. Michael Crawford's real surname before he started acting was Ingram, so he chose a different (actual) surname instead, as there was already a well-known Michael Ingram on TV; but he didn't just call himself Michael Yngrum or, worse, Michael Ingr'm!

There used to be a café in Reading called Café Olé. Except neither word had the acute accent on the E, and everyone called it the Café Ole.

Very good points, actually - same with Australian people and things being abbreviated to 'Aussie', but pronounced 'Ozzy'.

But these parents clearly knew that there was no Z in the standard spelling of Isaac (except for author Izaak Walton, who died well over 300 years ago, when spellings were often different from now)!

Café Ole as in what a shit 'ole?
Shot themselves in the foot, there! 😂

If I lived in Reading, I'd be around there with my marker pen - once I'd added the missing 'I' to all of the 'to let' signs in the town, that 'F' would be becoming a 'K' straightaway

Depends whether it's an aspirated h or not!

There is or used to be a pâtisserie in London called ‘Maison Blanc’. My French friend found that quite annoying.

I don't know why. Maybe they didn't know that its owner was Raymond Blanc. In this case Maison Blanc was correct.

You’re living my dream! I can’t see a To let sign without wanting to put an i in it.

There used to be a takeaway near me called ‘Le Pizza’
😬

Yes it was a pun, sort of.