Illiterate Britain
I'm chuffed to find that MSN and their friends have done the hard work and gathered together a bunch of examples of irritating language gaffs.
As another case of bad grammar on a road sign makes the headlines, MSN presents a
gallery
of the very worst examples of publicly-aired lazy punctuation and lousy spelling.
The one that bugs me - and it's not in the list - is the sign over some checkout tills at the supermarket that reads:-
ADDENDUM
The MSN page is no longer available so here is the next best thing that I can offer - a screen shot:-
And here is a link to the cached page:-
Illiterate Britian - cached
As another case of bad grammar on a road sign makes the headlines, MSN presents a
gallery
of the very worst examples of publicly-aired lazy punctuation and lousy spelling.
The one that bugs me - and it's not in the list - is the sign over some checkout tills at the supermarket that reads:-
10 items or less
ADDENDUM
The MSN page is no longer available so here is the next best thing that I can offer - a screen shot:-
And here is a link to the cached page:-
Illiterate Britian - cached
22/8/2009 1:48 PM
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