Seen in the window of a well-known book emporium was the following:

[Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa]

Coming to this store:

So and so, local author will be signing copies of his book: "Your Coming With Me Lad"

My mum and I both stood, aghast. I checked when I got home, the book emporium employees had indeed got it wrong, they also got it wrong on their website.

is it this one?

www.amazon.co.uk/Youre-Coming-Me-Lad-Yorkshire/dp/0340918764

do you know it took me a good minute to work that out.....doh!!!

My mum gave me a book the other day, I opened it, then shut it immediately, the whole damn novel is written in slang/text talk

The very first sentence reads, The ma and me, an me mothers sis

Pizza Express have a new colouring/activity sheet for children. On one of the pages it says 'Send us your pictures, photo's.......'.

Who proof reads these things? Monkeys?

This sort of thing drives me mad. I didn't bother posting on a thread earlier where the OP has the apostrophe in the wrong place each time she had put hadn't, couldn't etc. I might be pedantic but I am proud.

pickyvic - It's Borders (the Teesside branch, the website has the same bloody error). I had to walk past it again today, I hurried and tried to avert my eyes but they were ineffably drawn.......Gaaaaah!

Go inside and point it out, you will appear pendantic, but it is a genuine problem now.

I have just read a Hobbycraft instruction leaflet for a papercutter, which informs me I need to check the "quide rail" (guide rail) and there is a "thurning dial" (turning dial). Needless to say I will be sending an email......do proof readers not exist anymore?

LSF I had one of those rambling inner debates about whether to point it out to the staff.

I wish I'd gone in now!

I think if you are going to gouge your eyes out every time you walk past, you really should speak to them.

Telephone them, that way you don't have to see the offending notice, point out that it isn't only grammatically incorrect, but it also isn't the name of the book. They really should research these things if they want to sell them!

Waterstone's in my town had a sign saying 'Bored of teenage fiction ?' - I nearly ripped it off the shelf

Seen on 19 June whilst at a conference at the British Library of all places, on their promotional screens: 'Dad's are difficult to buy for...' It then went on to recommend adopting a book or something but of course I was silently fuming and cursing so much that I can't remember what it was for!

We need a Mumsnet complaint movement I think!

DH thinks I'm petty, I think I'm justified!

yogabird - the British Library, that is shocking.

MaryAnn - don't want to look stupid here, but what's wrong with that?

Should it be 'Bored with teenage fiction'? I was thinking the same thing, but wanted to appear fairly knowledgable...does knowledagble have an 'e' after the 'g'?

Why does it need inverted commas?

Were I the author, I would be kicking up a huge fuss over that poster!

Photo's is a correct abbreviation for photographs, isn't it?

The apostrophe replaces the missing letters?

photos is a plural not a contraction

Is it not an abbreviation of photographs?

photos is fine, photo's in that context means that they want you to send them your photo's something, ie 'send us your photo's tip tips of the day', or somesuch...

"My mum gave me a book the other day, I opened it, then shut it immediately, the whole damn novel is written in slang/text talk"

Well it is tales of a Yorkshire Bobby......I remember reading a book for my higher English - the name has escaped me - but it was all in proper Scots - because, errm, that's where it was set.

bored of is wrong !