AAGGGH! Freaking Mothercare - I give up!

[fullmoonfiend]

First look at this link -
look at the writing on the t-shirt

So I emailed them to point out the error and asked them if they needed a good proof reader...
Then,
Look at the email response from Mothercare over this rogue apostrophe

''Thank you for your recent e-mail.

I apologise for this error, I can confirm we have proof readers to spot this type of error but on this occasion they must of missed this.
I will pass your information to the relevant department so we can try to avoid this accident in the future.
I hope this is of some help.

Kind regards''

They are taking the piss!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry! Which is worse, the shirt or the email??

Pedants! Share my ire!

Good grief they are both awful.

And I thought it was just foreign-designed clothes that had duff English. My latest favourite is a t-shirt seen in France sporting the catchy slogan

That's the way it's

At the risk of raising your blood pressure, look at this!

I feel your pain.

Have submitted an onlne review accordingly!

Will they submit it though?!

oh goodness this is AWFUL!!!!

people actually buy these things and wear them / dress their poor little babies in them!

and for mothercare to send that letter... shocking. i would send back to someone higher up at mothercare. they need better staff, that's appalling

[shakes head]

This isn't pedants stuff. This is shockingly ignorant and MC should be ashamed.

Have also submitted a review, but I bet they don't publish it.

Have sent an email to Joe Browns.

And breathe.

Isn't the Joe Brown's one deliberate? "For confident lads who luv txt type grama! "

I think not - the original catalogue containing the offending item did not have this description or use the word "grama" .

Ah, clearly they've tried to pretend it was intentional then! Their description doesn't explain why they've spelt "don't" correctly though

See, once they're into Joe Browns, they're beyond redemption....

But the mOTHERCARE ONE IS SOMEHOW WORSE!
Pedants, help me bombard Mothercare MD with complaints! if we can save just one little child from the misrery of wearing a slogan tee-shirt, let alone a gramatically incorrect one, it will all be worth it

My dh is now threatening to create a special mug for the boys to present me with. It will say ''Mummys' Little Grammer Nazi'' and will torment me every time I have to drink from it.

now I am aware there was a literal in my last post. But I'm not being paid to pay attention to deatail

oFFS!!!

Hand's FMF a calming cup of tea and a chocolate hobnob.

[snigger]

I have had a reply from Joe Browns.

It is sold under licence by Warner Brothers, so JB can't do anything about it. They did say that they had noticed the error, but think it's a "pretty cool T-shirt any way"!

I did try.

Shocking stuff. People don't seem to care any more. It's as if correct grammar is some recondite custom buried in the past and practised only by those who are over-insistent on etiquette, like doffing one's cap or tugging one's forelock.

IT ISN'T. It's for everyone.

anyway

It's the thin end of the wedge, I tell you!

I'm not surprised. These are the same people who wouldn't sell DW a car seat, "because it's raining".

Wankers.