Just out shopping at our local Publix supermarket (You know: the fancy one, with the valet parking.) In front of the hot food case in the deli section stands a sign, advertising the daily specials. Among other things, today on offer were:
Clam Chodwer
Fried Cat & Whitting Fish
Backed Wings
So, you mean to tell me that not a single manager in the whole store bothers to look at the signage? Just a glance? Shit, maybe a manager wrote that. I can’t decide if I’m delighted or disgusted.
Anyway, they were out of fried cat.
Anyone else seen any other public mis-spellings recently?
Dammit, I came way too close to snorking a mouthful of pasta salad up my nose. Fried cat he writes, ha!
Our town recently had an ice cream social, as they’ve done for the past few years. Normally I don’t go down to the particular section of Main street where they’d placed a big banner advertising the event. My hair appointment came up though and so I fought traffic to get down Main to the section where they’d placed the banner. It was huge! It was also wrong. ‘Come to the 4rd annual Chamber of Commerce Iice Cream Social!’
I went into the salon and asked if anybody had noticed the errors in the banner, thinking it had just been hung. It just didn’t seem like the Chamber would have left it up for very long. Nobody in the shop had noticed the errors and it had been up for almost three weeks!
I shouldn’t be surprised. I was in an Arizona JC Penney and noticed a sign, that from the style had to have been up for a minimum of two decades. Houseware’s Department. Really? Houseware has it’s very own department to cherish. Houseware’s mother must be very proud.
I wish I could remember the error on the Burger King marquee around the corner. It was up there for months and I had to drive by it every day. I’d resolve to call them and let them know they were butchering our language, but always forgot.
I saw a commercial tonight during Battlestar Galactica for a 10th anniversary Xena DVD set (or some such thing) advertised as the “XENA ANNIVERSARY COLECTION”.
Get your act together guys. Use spell check at the very least.
Back when Cartoon Network was heavily advertising the then-brand-new Mucha Lucha, the commercial always started with short shots of random cartoon mayhem, followed the the word, “Legal!”, then more mayhem, and then, “Ilegal!”, with only one “L”. That always bugged me.
:smack: Okay, ignore my last one…lemme see…well, the other night I went through our employee training manual cursing at extraneous apostrophes. We’re professional’s, yes we are.
At most of the chinese buffets I go to, I’d be surprised if they spelled “duck” right.
BTW, the OP is not making a joke about the supermarket having valet parking, I know the one he’s talking about. IIRC, it also has parapets, I guess for when Winn Dixie declares war.
There’s a sign at our Albertson’s supermarket that always cracks me up, making me think of cute, spicy little frogs, or perhaps spicy voyeurs: Jalapeno Peepers.
There is a sign on a roadside stand in a little town not far from me which advertises “Bolied Peanuts”. I’m used to the ones who can’t spell peanuts (most of the signs advertise P-nuts), but this is the only guy I’ve seen who can’t spell boiled!
(This has nothing to do with spelling, but is there some kind of law that roadside sellers of boiled peanuts may only use hand-lettered signs done in red and yellow paint? I don’t think I’ve ever seen another kind.)
A Mexican place in Orange (Chapman at Harbor – I don’t remember the name) used to have on its menu ‘Texas BBQ Plater’. Sadly, they eventually caught the spelling error and fixed it.
Yup! And to keep an eye out in case the golf course community across Federal Highway starts getting uppity …
Deerfield Beach, just to the south of us, is having some road work done. To warn motorists, they had one of those big electronic highway signs out, warning people how there was CONSTURCTION AHEAD. It was like that for a month before they corrected it.
Many years ago, my 8th grade English teacher went into a store around Easter time, and this store had a seasonal section which was at that time devoted to Easter related products. It happened to be aisle 9, and they had hung a very Easter-themed, pastel-colored sign over the aisle saying as much. Only it was spelled “Isle 9.” My teacher brought over the manager, pointed at the sign, and said, “Bermuda or Bahamas?” It took several minutes before he got it.
A week later she went back, and someone had taken a nice big fat black marker and written an “A” in front of the word “Isle.”