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Grammar Giggles – At Least They Are Consistently Mistaken

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I saw these signs as I was waiting in the Starbucks drive through line one night recently and had to drive closer to actually take the pictures. I can sometimes grant someone a minor error, but when you make more than one and they are not “minor,” you will definitely end up as a Grammar Giggle. “Receive” is misspelled in the first sign and the second misuses the apostrophe to make a word plural.

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Grammar Giggle – Get Invloved!

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My son sent this to me from one of the trade publications he received at the office. In a trade magazine! That is distributed to companies you want to do business with! Any advertisement for publication should be proofread by people who understand the industry and review every single word. Publication of your work product is too important to have these kinds of errors for everyone in your industry to see.

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Grammar Giggle – Statues

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i was looking up information about payroll reports when I came across this error which jumped out at me. It is proof that you can’t trust spell check. Both words are spelled correctly. I have trouble with “statues” instead of “statutes” sometimes too, but I check to make sure I have them right. And I’m not a government entity directing the public to the actual statute!

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Grammar Giggle – Restaurant Menu And Its Own Kind of English

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I captured these photos during a recent trip to Las Vegas. The “tomato’s” is what caught my eye, but as I and my friends started looking at it, the errors just kept coming. Some tips–commas are good, singulars and plurals are important, and it is “mixed” lettuce (but at least they were consistently wrong). I should disclose that I don’t think English was their first language, but when you have your business in America, it is good business sense to have someone familiar with the local language check your work.

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Grammar Giggle – News Is Hard

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My favorite source of Grammar Giggles (my local news station) had a pretty difficult time of it the other night. Three Grammar Giggles in one news story!

The first picture had me looking twice. I didn’t think her name was Steven, but the banner covered her actual nameplate and I just wasn’t sure:

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Then they went to the next person:

IMG_2719-1This still could be a name issue, except now I can see the nameplate. OK, so they got the names mixed up. But then

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It was a story about the Litchfield Park School District, which they got right in one place, but one would think that the name of the street in LITCHFIELD Park would be LITCHFIELD (which it is).

Three strikes, you’re out!

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Grammar Giggle – What Belongs To The Harrisons?

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This was a Facebook ad to entice me to order a personalized welcome mat.

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Unfortunately, the only thing this picture made me do was keep waiting for the rest of the statement. The Harrison’s . . . WHAT? What belongs to the Harrison? What belongs to ONE of the Harrisons? The Single Harrison’s House? The Single Harrison’s Stoop? The Single Harrison’s Porch? Get Off The Single Harrison’s Lawn? Once I clicked on the picture to save it and it took me to the actual website, this is the picture that was showing up there:Harrisons

This one is correct and renewed a little bit of my faith in the fact that someone at this retailer or the marketing company for the retailer actually knows what is correct. More discussion on this topic is at Plurals, Possessives, and Surnames Oh My!

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Grammar Giggle – A Title Is Just A Title

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This was a “breaking news” flash on my phone this week. The first one that came through was:

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The “correction” appearing within moments was:

Mayor Stanton

As a bit of background, Greg Stanton is the Mayor of the City of Phoenix and Doug Ducey is the Governor of the State of Arizona–two very different people with two very different jobs. While Mayor Stanton may well be Governor Stanton one day, on the day the “breaking news” appeared, he was still Mayor Stanton. There are lots of facts that need to be checked in proofreading–not just spelling and punctuation. In this case, I’m most interested in who caught the mistake because the correction was made more quickly than most news story corrections are made.

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