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Spotted an advert for two sound archive CDs entitled:

QuoteSounds of the Deep
Sounds of the British Coastline's

available from the Online Shop of...

...the British Library.

:'(
We're doomed.

Must send that to my mum. She'll go mental!

You have, of course, read 'Eats, shoots & leaves'??

A wee sample:

 ;D ;D ;D

I love Lynne Truss!

Have to say, though I love reading and the English language and find these mistakes funny, I hate Lynne Truss! Not everyone is lucky enough to have been so well educated that they know where an apostrophe is appropriate. She is so smug. Does a greengrocer cares where an apostrophe goes? If they all get super literate, what will make us smile?  ;)

Point taken, but I find her book very helpful - the first attempt to set it out in print - with a touch of humour - which helps make it stick?

Bull Ring Market...."leggin's £3 a pear"

nothing wrong with that ;D

don't get me started! I work in publishing and worked on a book recently that had a hyphen crazy editor. the proofs came back for correction and they'd hyphenated everything...

as much as I love my job, it does mean that I can't read anything without checking for typos and punctuation mistakes â€" it drives me and OH mad. most of those I've spotted recently have been on the BBC's breakfast programme :o ::)

Reminds me of seeing examples like "Its got an LCD display" so its got a liquid crystal display display  :o :o. Theres loads of other examples like that.

anyone seen the subtitles on tv lately, worth putting them on for a laugh  ;D ;D

Sorry to keep off the ' thread, but recently read a small book by a chum of mine - 120 typos!!  A real let-down for him.

Sorry, too, about all the hyphens, norfolklass - just feeling that way. Freedom of speech - like the '?

This may or may not be grammatically correct but it made me snigger!

On Freecycle this morning ...

OFFERED: Selection of short medium man's trousers

He's grown out of them?

Or is it even the short medium man that is offering them? Maybe someone's STOLEN them from a short medium man :D

there was that Conservative slogan from the 1950's that had a disastrous typo.
It should have been "You've never had it: so good!

... and "none sale" items

Whhhaaaaarrgggghhhhhhhh