Stupid signs...

[Lakelover]

Probably been many threads on this very subjest but I get irrationally irritated when people use an apostrophe when not required. A roadside sign on my way to work reads 'Puppy's for sale!' Puppy's what??!
Also on big sign in shop window - SALE! Hat's!! Scarve's!!(yup) Book's!! I mean COME ON. Don't any of these people read? Goodness I sound like my Grandmother....

Ooh no UnquietDad - presumably there couldn't have been more than one Bishop there?

Outside our local butcher's shop is a sign that says "BBQ pack £10. 10 burger's. 10 sausage's. 10 ribs".
The apostrophes after burger and sausage annoy me but what really irks me is why they didn't put one after ribs.

I must confess I am very tolerant of the spelling/grammar mistakes in dd's nursery reports because I know it's more important they are kind and cuddly people than good at English

I suspect I may be less generous when she is older though so do not quote me on this in two years' time...

At a soft play centre - "Hot drinks may scold."

Hot drinks may scold! Brilliant. Love dack point too! I shouldn't complain as ds is very happy at nursery and loves tucking into his samwhiches. Sounds like a child in his class doesn't it? Sam Whiches. My sister has the best pendantic job in the world - she's a sub-editor for a magazine and gets to check spellings and grammar for a living!

We saw a great one this weekend and I immediately thought of this thread.

A brand new £7.5million spa hotel has opened here this week.

The local newspaper display boards outside the newsagents says:

"NEW SPAR HOTEL OPENS"

What next? Is Londis going to expand and open up a health farm?

lol Aldi Wine Bar

Last time I visited Wells-next-the-sea I spotted no less than five shop signs with stray apostrophes in them, including:

Book's Music CD's

Get your Cream scone's here!

There is a banner near us that says "Free Sat Nav's (for thieves if you leave them visible in your car" - from Hampshire Constabulary!

You'd have thought they would have checked it...

Sidge - I think there is a school of thought that says apostrophes in plurals of abbreviated words is okay. Don't hold with it myself.

I live in a village called Bishop's Cleeve. HATE it when the apostrophe is left off. DDs uniform whilst at junior school had it embroidered on her school uniform without the apostrophe.

'Credit cards not excepted' at a cafe in Ambleside, I was very tempted to go and have something and pay with one. Can you imagine the conversation-'But the sign says you take them','Er,no'

You should ahve complained about the double negative

I drove past a sign yesterday that said "[roadworks] will be taking place here starting between May 2008 and December 2008".

Wasn't it on here that we discovered:

"Stationary"

At WHSMITH For sobbing out loud....

Well as long as it wasn't moving I don't see the problem

I live on "St Wilfrids" Road - with no apostrophe on the street sign. I have to pass it every day and I nearly faint every time.

The worst I've ever seen, in a shop in Camden Market

'When you've brought something it will not be bought back'

The misuse of bought/brought, whilst common, is especially puzzling here.

This is my favourite shop sign (photo by DD, who obviously inherits my pedantic nature)

Its the total uselessness of the information that I love....

Not at all relevant to the thread but I was just trying to find a particular one to link to and saw this. Brilliant.

www.flickr.com/photos/dgbalancesrocks/1416685427/

Oh, and that is fab thelady

lol rb

This is not technically incorrect, but needs to be shared nonetheless. A friend sent me a photo of the direction signs in a Chinese hospital. The gynaecological department was translated into English with literal flair as "cunt examination room".

pmsl ninedragons, that is fantastic!

No mistaking what goes on in that room then (I was going to say "no beating around the bush" but thought that was a bit )