A friend forwarded this one to me. I don’t even know where to start, so I have circled the errors that I found in a quick review. Note that the word “lite” is in more common usage when you’re talking about a lower calorie or lower fat version of a food, but NOT when talking about fire used to light something. That is “light.”
A friend send this one to me and I had to use it. While it is funny to me, I’m sure it was not so funny to the recipient.
I took this picture while I was in my favorite Starbucks drive-thru. I think I would prefer movers who were EXPERIENCED and honest or have a history of experience and HONESTY.
I found this on a page that I was directed to for a case where the order mentions proofreading, but couldn’t get past the title. It is a hard state to spell, but it is correct in the same header. Everything matters.
I saw this van on the freeway recently. I’m not sure why the word “electric” is misspelled on the back of the van when it is spelled correctly on the side. Interesting marketing ploy.
I received this one a while ago and while the bulk of it is OK, multiple errors in one sentence are always troublesome.
This was in my Facebook feed recently. Apparently this company wanted to get the attention of a house in Mesa for its program. Otherwise, it would have addressed it to Mesa RESIDENTS. And, once again, it also uses an apostrophe to make a word plural. It seems that a company paying to promote an ad would make sure it was correct.
We received this pleading in our office recently. This is a perfect example of settings in Microsoft Word’s spell check making a huge difference. Check your settings to see if “Ignore Words in UPPERCASE” is checked and uncheck it right now! Headings, titles of pleadings, and other documents include lots of uppercase words and if you’re ignoring them, there could be errors you will miss. At least this person got it right once.
This sign is in my parking garage at the visitor exit. I took the picture when I was leaving from a lane over, so I couldn’t check the small print. But the largest print was enough to make me shake my head.
I swear I’ve looked at this license on my nail tech’s desk a hundred times, but just last weekend I finally saw IT. The mistake that I make on occasion, but in proofreading, I find it and make the correction. I do see it quite a bit because it is not something spell check would catch. Apparently, the State of Arizona spell checker didn’t catch it either. And just as an aside, I do not consider this a “fraudulent” purpose–it is an educational purpose. But I do wonder what the Arizona Revised Statues look like. What part of the statue was revised? What are they modeled after? Where are they located? What do you think an Arizona Revised Statue would look like?
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