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Grammar Giggle – I Don’t Understand!

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My son caught this at a convenience store near his house. I don’t even know what this sign means. He said he thinks it means that shoppers need to leave backpacks or bags at the front while they are shopping. I think if that’s what they meant, that’s what they should have said.

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Grammar Giggle – Errors Do Not Make An Article Ttraffic Worthy!

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A friend sent this one to me. Headlines are what make readers want to read an article. A headline with TWO errors certainly does not entice me to read one. Headlines—and inside addresses in letters (including the “re:” line) and document headings and captions–are at least as important as the rest of the document and help a reader who is skimming your work decide if they want to spend the time actually reading some of it.

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Grammar Giggle – Cod Fillet’s and Bags

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I found this in a grocery store in Albuquerque. If I were to read this sign literally, I would see that it is $9.99 for the Cod Fillet’s 16 oz. bag, which sounds significantly overpriced unless it is a designer bag. And to warrant a sign, that Cod Fillet must have more bags than some of my friends do. I’m pretty sure they meant to say that the $9.99 was for a 16 oz. bag of cod fillets, but that’s not what it actually says.

 

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Grammar Giggle – Oh. Goodness. Disneyland.

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I spent a lot of time at Disneyland in the last month. I have a lot of respect for Disney and the way they operate the Parks. While I looked for signs with errors, I didn’t find anything in either Disneyland Park or California Adventure, so my dream job (wandering around Disneyland looking for grammar errors) was out the window. But in my second trip, while on a shuttle bus from a parking area to the Parks, my son caught this one. With apologies for the less-than-clear picture (it was taken through a dirty bus window), you should get the idea. In Disney’s defense, I was not near the sign, so was not able to confirm that the extra period was an error and not squashed bugs, so I’m going with an error–and an opportunity for my dream job!

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Grammar Giggle – Do Not Poor Liquid In The Trys

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At a stop in Quartzsite, Arizona, on our way to Disneyland, I saw this sign on a drink fountain. There were several of the signs throughout the store on all of the drink dispensing fountains, so at least they were consistent. They were just consistently horribly wrong.

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