Response from Tesco
Posted on February 13, 2008
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Woohoo! A letter from Tesco in response to my note to them including the picture of their typo (see previous post).
Tesco Typo
Posted on February 10, 2008
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Here’s a beautiful example of an apostrophe-misuse that will have been on display outside every Tesco store in the land on New Year’s Eve!
“You’re local Express Store will be open as normal” - with the incorrect use of an apostrophe making this banner actually read “You are local Express Store…”!
I’m amazed that this one slipped through the net! And that the store went ahead and used the banner - as surely it must have been detected at some stage before it was distributed around the country, mustn’t it?!
Emo Cleaning Services
Posted on February 4, 2008
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Many thanks to Ben who sent this little joy over - he says: “I’m amused at this flyer which offers “moping” services and “general cleaning of rooms”. So the modern emo teenager, when sent to their room to clean it, can not only outsource the cleaning but the associated moping!”
Personally, I always think it’s a novel marketing strategy to call your business ‘A1 etc’….
And let’s not overlook the ‘On Very Reasonable Prices’ statement!
Under new management
Posted on January 26, 2008
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Phew! After quite a lot of domain unlocking, contacting hosting providers and nameserver re-registering… oh and then a bit more domain unlocking - wrongwrite.com is finally live in a new home!
Miles has passed the baton over to us at 18a Productions as life has just proved too hectic in his world lately.
So, although I’m about to shoot off and erect a garden shed in deepest Somerset as part of my grand moving-house plan, I’ll be back next week to report on a letter I recently received from TESCO, apologising for a very mis-placed apostrophe I noticed at New Year.
Aviaiton House
Posted on August 28, 2007
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This is the newly erected sign which just appeared at Aviation House, home of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in Canberra. Thanks to Nathanael for passing this little gem on.
We’re all hoping that they check aircraft a whole lot better than they write signage…
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