This was the question once asked by my friend's son when she told him they were having a family holiday in Norfolk. A couple of things I've spotted lately have made me wonder about the literary skills of some folk in this county...
Firstly in the market town of North Walsham. The main market street is being resurfaced. Everything closed to traffic, to the annoyance of many shopkeepers whose customers and deliveries are being inconvenienced. Trade is suffering. Many shop windows carry posters expressing their anger. But there are Council signs explaining the situation
Then I read a headline in the Eastern Daily Press. I think it could have been phrased better.
Deliberately killing a pigeon is sad - but to kill a bird who can ride a mobility scooter is really criminal!
Deliberately killing a pigeon is sad - but to kill a bird who can ride a mobility scooter is really criminal!
I must get on - this is proving to be a rather 'bussy' week.
Thank you for giving me a smile and a little laugh this morning. Love Isabel
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ReplyDeleteHow can they have misspelled it on an official sign ???? Poor genius pigeon! Again, how could they get that phrasing so wrong? People are horrible to pigeons and they use the justification that they are pests and disease ridden. No excuse for being cruel and inhumane. Kezzie xx
ReplyDeleteNo excuse for official signs to have mistakes. And no excuse for cruelty
DeleteIt's reassuring to know that "bussiness" is open as usual. As for killing pigeons on mobility scooters, what next?
ReplyDeletePenguins on e-bikes?
DeleteThe lack of proper spelling and the use of good grammar on most of the social media sites drives me insane. Whatever you do don't get me started on punctuation either.
ReplyDeleteMy real pet hate is the purposeful misspelling of words for shop names, no wonder children struggle to pick up the correct spelling, and the modern thing of spelling your child's name with completely random letters just to be different.
Calling the register when I was a supply teacher was really difficult sometimes.
ReplyDeleteWhen my children were very young I tried to avoid shopping at Toys R Us or buying anything made by Playskool for those very reasons. Misplaced modifiers are one of my bugbears. I still remember the one our English teacher used as an illustration - “Table wanted by lady with mahogany legs”. News headlines are full of them.
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DeleteThen there's the greengrocers misplaced apostrophe! In a recently previous life I got to read a lot of applications for jobs, even those posted on-lined with the advantages of spell checking and (Microsoft US grammar corrections) were frequently so badly written and spelled that it was difficult to understand what the job applicant actually meant to write.
ReplyDeleteI do not understand how people can fill in a job application and not ask someone to check it - but maybe their friends cannot spell either.
DeleteIt happens here too. Back in spring 2019 when the river was in flood, there was a yellow metal sign at the bottom of our road, which read, "ROAD CLOASED"!
ReplyDeleteWhat a hoapeless noatice!
DeleteOne of the books by Catherine Fox had misplaced modifiers' as a running gag; 'pierce with a pin and push off'. My favourite from the book was 'shop assistants will cut cabbages in half on request '
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