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Here's one, Jean. ;)

My mum and dad used to collect them from newspaper classified ads (you call them small ads I think).

Chip 'n Dale table.

Aha, I've remembered the other one I was trying to think of:

Chester drawers.

Spelling mistakes in advertisements in the papers. In a local paper for the farming community it is so obvious that the typist has no knowledge of the subject matter and can put mis-spelling which alters the whole sense of the advert. Of course, just now my mind is a blank and cannot think of an example! Jean

Used to do a bit of a double take when I saw a lorry belonging to South Eastern Shopfitters because it always went into my brain as South Eastern Shoplifters and I thought they must be very good at it to need a lorry.

Indeed he does - particularly as the first sign was written without any grammatical errors!

......he sounds a tad annoyed Dominic......

This wasn't a shop sign that agravated or annoyed me - quite the reverse.

The main shopping street near my house sells vegetables and spices which would be considered exotic elsewhere. One of the less exotic ones is root ginger. One of the greengrocers got fed up with people breaking little pieces off his root ginger, so put up a sign which read:

"Please do not break small pieces off the root ginger. If you are discovered doing this you will be charged as though you had bought the whole root."

That didn't seem to have much effect on customer behaviour, so it was replaced a couple of weeks later with a sign which read:

"YOU BREAK MY GINGER AND I'LL BREAK YOUR FINGER!"

Kay, just looked on one of their receipts and it is Wilkinson!!!! No S

One thing that is really grating on me at the moment is the aparrent change in the way the letter 'H' is said. It seems that if you are under the age of 30 it now has to be pronounced Haitch instead of Aitch. And no matter how many times I correct my children they still insist it's Haitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!

Well there you go.............it was the serprise mor than any think......
nearly got hit bye a rabbit............mind you the piano he was playing didnt miss me.........

Sign in a cafe in Selsey used to ask ladies not to put sanitary ware down the toilets. I suppose that once you have smashed up the pan and poked it all down the drain the mess must be appalling,and think of the noise!

Sign in Sainsbury's told us that their herbs compliment tomatoes.

Maybe

"My, you look good in that red outfit "?

Gwyn

Here's one for you.

People who end a question with or."Are you going home now or?" Then they wait, open mouthed, for an answer whIle I stand,open mouthed,waiting for the rest of the question.

People who end a statement with so.

hospikal, kekkle,

dont know if this is just an accent difference, but that K is getting in the wrong place again.

One of the worst signs I've seen is in an NHS car park - "have you payed and displayed"

and one of my pet hates is people ending words with a "k" instead of a "g" e.g. nothink, somethink, everythink grrrrrrrr it really annoys me.

Mary

Ann,

I looked on one of their shop bags,,ha ha,,,

oh my goodness me

i really must go to bed now folks cos i yawwwwwwwwwwwning,
sorry how rude of me, tee hee

Oh Ann -- I'd bet money the shop sign doesn't have an apostrophe!

An empty bottle of beer.

Julie*Ann..Sadly I dont think it was a collection point

ooh yes, lend/borrow, learn/teach, forgot those thorns in the flesh. And there/their. And recieve instead of receive.

Thanks Kay, wasn't sure if they did have an apostrophe in the shop name.

Ann
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