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There is something on Mumsnet that is annoying me and has been for ages!

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Lovesdogsandcats · 17/01/2009 21:57

At the top of every Mumsnet page is a box (I can see it now!) where it tells us that Mumsnet members get a 10% discount from various companies.

They have put Sweaty Betty with a lowercase 's' in the 'Sweaty' and it is doing my head in!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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WilfSell · 17/01/2009 21:59

seems to be part of their branding on their site, so suspect it is deliberate.

ChasingSquirrels · 17/01/2009 22:06

don't click on the link then, and agree with wilf.

roisin · 17/01/2009 22:07

and it's made you notice them and comment on them, so maybe the marketing works!

Lovesdogsandcats · 17/01/2009 22:13

ooops should have done more research. Wilf you are correct, it is deliberate. Still annoying though, looks wrong.

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RamblingRosa · 19/01/2009 08:41

There was/is an American poet/literary critic type who insisted on spelling her name all in lower case. I can't even remember her name now but it used to drive me crazy. It just seemed really pretentious.

WilfSell · 19/01/2009 10:36

you mean bell hooks?

e.e.cumming did it a long time ago too.

I think it is a protest (in hook's case) against the paternalistic Eurocentric nature of langue. Or summat. It's not her real name anyhow.

No idea what cumming's excuse was.

RamblingRosa · 19/01/2009 14:30

Ah yes, exactly Wilf. bell hooks. I always wanted to write it with an upper case B and H just to annoy her. For some reason it doesn't annoy me so much with e.e. cummings. Did you study literary theory too or do you just happen to have an extensive knowledge of American poets?

NotQuiteCockney · 23/01/2009 09:46

E.E. Cummings did not spell his name lower case. He just didn't use caps conventionally in his poems. cite

charlotteolivia · 24/02/2009 23:00

lovesdogsandcats-
www.sweatybetty.com/Scripts/prodlist.asp found this home page for you that should make you breathe easier!! Capital S for you...

Tinker · 24/02/2009 23:49

Isn't k d lang another pretentious insister of lower case as well?

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