Category Archives: grammar giggles

This was in a recent email I received. I understand it is hard to spell, but generally spell check will catch it or if there is any doubt, look it up!

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I recently hit the jackpot on menu errors when I found three in the same menu. First, it appears they only offer you one brussel sprout and then they spell that wrong. It should be Brussels (named after the city of Brussels) sprout.

Then, they off a “blackend” shrimp risotto, even though they spelled it “blackened” in the description.

And finally, they offered the rainbow trout with “oyser” mushrooms. It should be “oyster” mushrooms.

It is never my intent to make fun of any establishment–just to use these errors to teach you something–so I have marked out the name of the restaurant. And regardless of the errors, the food was delicious!

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This was a category in some education sessions I recently attended. The one thing going for it was that they were consistent. It was spelled “Begginer” throughout all the material. While I loved the categories so I knew if something would be too far above my head for me to learn anything, I also love when someone proofreads the material going out to attendees.

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This part of a menu from a local restaurant caught my eye because first, I love jalapenos so I notice those right away and, second, it is spelled differently in two places in the same paragraph. Worse yet, the second one is spelled so correctly it even includes the tilde.

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My sister found this one on the local Facebook Marketplace. Obviously, the word should be “intact,” which, according to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, means “untouched especially by anything that harms or diminishes.”

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