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Baner or is it banner?
Just got back from my deliveries and saw this en route, makes you wonder how they get away with it. If you are in the Havant/ Portsmouth area and this is yours I suggest you get it back quick.
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Come on then lets start putting some hands up.
I’ll admit to ‘Larger’ not ‘Lager’ on a banner once.
Was having a Homer day 🙄
‘It’s NOT their fault Peter!’
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Good one.
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UNBILIVEABLE SPELING 😀
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I cant sea anyfing rong with it, what am i supose two bee looking at?
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They obviously paid for the design before they saw it!!!! *rofl*
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Great spell checking in their Chinese cut and print program.
Peter
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Saw a For Sale sign in Poynton in Cheshire that had Plannig Permission.
Wonder if the same guy does work up this way 😀
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Well, the great favourite around here, about the turn of the century, with all the worry about the computer bug, was "millenium".
I used to tell them that the first and most important step in a millennium strategy was to learn how to spell it.
Didn’t make me a lot of friends, but gave me a lot of fun. 😀
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A signwriter I know, once done a huge Christmas banner that read "Away in a manager" 🙄
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I’M SAYING NOTHING! 😉
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Happens all the time. For years, one of my customers drove about in vans which included the message "Burgular alarms fitted"…
Until one day a kind school teacher pointed out that it should be spelt burglar 😕 😳 -
I remember Andrew did something similar on a van. guy came in and said to him, since you did my van last I’ve had non-stop phone calls…. then proceeded to point out that he had "Professional Strippers" under his company name… instead of "professional paper or wallpaper strippers" :lol1:
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That’s not a spelling mistake Rob – that’s just wishfull thinking :lol1:
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buisness was the most classic one for me !!!
did a quick search on the boards and found out i wasn’t the only one though :lol1: :lol1: over 40 matches -
quote Ian Johnston:buisness was the most classic one for me !!!
did a quick search on the boards and found out i wasn’t the only one though :lol1: :lol1: over 40 matchesgood quick thinking ian…..others heads in hands me thinks when they read this.. :lol1:
nik
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quote Nicola Rowlands:quote Ian Johnston:buisness was the most classic one for me !!!
did a quick search on the boards and found out i wasn’t the only one though :lol1: :lol1: over 40 matchesgood quick thinking ian…..others heads in hands me thinks when they read this.. :lol1:
nik
they even had a highlighted spell check on it, my old sign program didn’t so i had an excuses :lol1:
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‘gamimg room’ on a grand opening sign of a gaming room is my claim to fame 😳
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book keeping, book-keeping, bookkeeping. What’s the correct way of spelling that?
We printed some display boards on Tuesday and weren’t happy with it, the customer was unavailable all day so we couldn’t check, but was due in to collect the boards first thing Wednesday so we had to go ahead. Not a problem to us because he supplied the files, but it looked odd to me.
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Here’s another one….
fascia or facia?
Our local screenprinter has facia on his signs and paperwork and I once told him it was wrong. He pointed out that it could be spelt either way. When I got home I checked, and he was right.
My worry would be though, although he is technically correct, I’d never seen it spelt his way before so how many of his potential customers would look at it and, like myself, presume he had made a mistake?
I’m fairly lucky. I think it might be because, from a very young age, I have read a lot and am used to looking at words, and usually instictively know when something is wrong. That’s not to say that I always know the correct spelling, but at least once the alarm bells have rung I have the opportunity to get the dictionary out.
I don’t think we have any howlers out there. That’s not to say we haven’t done it, but I don’t remember ever receiving any complaints. However, I will put my hands up to once or twice transposing digits in telephone numbers. Not as much fun as a spelling mistake, but embarrasing nonetheless. 😳
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Licence and License causes a good argument here. American or English, both languages are well accepted here, so I always leave it up to the customer to decide. Most go for the American spelling though, a good indication of how much the US has an influence here.
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I once sent out a dozen Fire Assmbly Point Signs. The customer even installed 3 of them before he noticed the error.
The trouble with me is I think I can dance when I`m drunk just like I think I can type when I`m sober.
Cheers
Gary
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An engraver I used to work with did 50 nameplates by hand reading….Beware The Of Dog…….he never lived that one down :lol1:
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Did a window 6/7 years ago "no obolgation quotations"… passing customer noticed it after a week and the worst ever was a stainless plaque when I was Q.A. at a sign company when just starting out in this game. A dozen lines of small text including the phrase "…developmemt agency…". Operator proofed it, I read through & proofed it and signed it off – customer checked it. Everybody’s happy. Opening day – at the swarey…
Lesson is – don’t read the WORDS – read the LETTERS!
That said – I’ve still got a spelling mistake on the display boards in the office – "The most incricate detail….." 3 1/2 years that’s been up – seems a shame to change it.
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My claim to fame is a sign on a fishing lake, client provided the wording and he wanted to proof it, but we still both missed it.
Please dip all keep nets into the warter bucket.
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Went unnoticed for 4 months
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If I haven’t got the telephone number when I do a layout I usually put something like 0101 666 8888 to show how it will fill the space.
I did a van and didn’t change the file so I missed it three times, putting on each side of the van and when I weeded out. A bit embarassing next day when the guy came back to have it changed.Steve
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This is one of my classics. Been posted before but worth another look.
Sign was up for around 2-3 months before a guy cutting the grass spotted the mistake 😮
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I’ve been waiting for Rich to post something but no luck, wanted to point out a mistake on his website homepage :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
I’ll have to owe him a drink at sign UK for telling everyone 😉
sorry Rich 😳
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I think Funtion suite sounds better 😀
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quote glenn:I think Funtion suite sounds better 😀
That’s what I tried to tell them Glenn 😀 they just wouldn’t have it 🙁
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There’s 3 builder’s vans driving round here with refurbishement on the side. Told him, re cut the letters to do a quick turnaround when he brought them back in, and he hasn’t brought them back yet – 3 months later!
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was looking for this the other day, found it at last,
spelling doesn’t matter.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamt! nt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rgh it pclae . The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a
pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh, and I awlyas tghuhot
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Prints a sod aint it, one mistake and got to do it all again,
I was gutted with this one, last time I made the same mistake, about 8 years ago, it took the customer 3 months to notice, this time only two weeks, it was read, and re-read, customer "proofed it"
Thats life though……
Peter
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what a bummer peter….looks good too 😀
nik
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wheres the T …….. two sugars please 😉
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Damn! I hate that. The same mistake twice,…. at least your consistent Pete :lol1:
Looks good apart from that 😕
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Just followed a Metro car into work with the back window done …. describing them as Genral builders….. maybe that is just the Yorkshire accent
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could have kicked myself when I failed to take a picture of a sign which had been done for a Mercedes dealership to direct people to the showroom door
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Peter,
what do you do in a case like that…
can you get away with just printing the wrong half again or is it a full re-do?
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Glenn, in this case, I will replace all three panels, to replace the offending word would then look like a sticker, and the edges would be visible, its no great deal to replace, probably less than 30 quids worth of materials, resulting in a happy customer. I suppose the bottom half could be redone, but then a join may be visible that wasnt there before, so I will just bite the bullet
Peter
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Here’s another one I came across today. Looks like its catching 😮 😮 😮
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OK guys I’ve been harping on about spelling but now I have my own dilemma how do you spell Immobilization is it with a Z or an S please let me know as I have a van to do in the morning.
Peter
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quote Peter Munday:how do you spell Immobilization is it with a Z or an S please let me know as I have a van to do in the morning.
S on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Z on the other.
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My Oxford English Dictionary spells it with a ‘Z’
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Peter according to the Oxford dictionary it is Z or S , microsoft office word it’s either s or z, so I guess it’s up to you 🙄 I think the Z looks better
Lynn
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quote Peter Munday:My Oxford English Dictionary spells it with a ‘Z’
I don’t care. I spell it with an S.
Who ya gonna believe? The Oxford dictionary, or me? *rofl*
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in () after the word it says "ise" well it does in mine why does English give you so many choices to spell it right ????
Lynn
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Well it’s done with a ‘Z’ now and that’s that ( still doesn’t look right ) 🙄 🙄 🙄
Peter
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quote Peter Munday:still doesn’t look right
That’s ‘cos it isn’t.
Would I lie to you? 😛
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John my customer is not the worlds best speller so I should get away with it 😛 😛 😛
Peterp.s. I do trust you :lol1:
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I’m with JOhn. The ‘s’ is right.. 🙄 😉
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Definitely an ‘s’.
Between the ‘evolution’ of English (in Britain) to a corrupted semi-phonetic version and ‘TXT SPK’ I’m really despairing at the lack of importance placed on correct spelling in our schools.
"Can’t spell, can’t count – never mind, it is the half-hearted effort that matters."
We are all going to make spelling errors, whether a "grocer’s apostrophe", ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ or believing our U.S. spell checker.
Grrr! I hate being told that perfectly good and proper words in English "don’t exist" by (cough) English speakers. eg. "Spelt" rejected and "spelled" demanded. The flippin’ ‘z’. "Capitalize" "Randomize", "Lazer". Come on – the last one is an acronym! L.A.S.E.R. (Rant! Rave! – Morning strop!)
Dave
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Calm down Dave. 😀
Peter,
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quote John Childs:Calm down Dave. 😀
Peter,
:nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana: :nana:All calm…all c a l m…shhhh, a l l c a l m… :lol1:
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quote David Rogers:Definitely an ‘s’.Between the ‘evolution’ of English (in Britain) to a corrupted semi-phonetic version and ‘TXT SPK’ I’m really despairing at the lack of importance placed on correct spelling in our schools.
“Can’t spell, can’t count – never mind, it is the half-hearted effort that matters.”
We are all going to make spelling errors, whether a “grocer’s apostrophe”, ‘ie’ or ‘ei’ or believing our U.S. spell checker.
Grrr! I hate being told that perfectly good and proper words in English “don’t exist” by (cough) English speakers. eg. “Spelt” rejected and “spelled” demanded. The flippin’ ‘z’. “Capitalize” “Randomize”, “Lazer”. Come on – the last one is an acronym! L.A.S.E.R. (Rant! Rave! – Morning strop!)
Dave
Get out of the wrong side of the bed this morning Dave? 😀
Actually it made me smile. I got Graham in our office to read your post because it sounds just like me!Debbie
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Watched a shopping centre caretaker paint "NO PARKIG" in white gloss on a highly visible wall 😕
I would have said to him if it wasn’t for the fact that he chased me from parkig at that spot everyday (chat.)
😉
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Immobilisation with an ‘s’ please.
As for spelling mistakes, it’s usually a case of fingers typing too fast rather than me not knowing how to spell something. The classic one for me was signs for a changing room in a spa …………… instead of using the word areas …………… I had used ar$e. (obviously not with the $ but a ‘s’) 😳
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quote John Childs:Calm down Dave. 😀
Gee Dave…. Got my heart racing just reading your post. 😮 I’m goning to have to sit back and enjoy a beer now to relax 😉
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My worst spelling mistake was for a conference on Prostate cancer………………..I lettered all the signs with "Prostrate" 😳
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quote Marcella:Immobilisation with an ‘s’ please.As for spelling mistakes, it’s usually a case of fingers typing too fast rather than me not knowing how to spell something. The classic one for me was signs for a changing room in a spa …………… instead of using the word areas …………… I had used ar$e. (obviously not with the $ but a ‘s’) 😳
you sure it wasn’t with a Z Marci??? lol!
i agree with you, John, and Dave though,
my occasional poor spelling is usually laziness (with a z), i’ve always been good at spelling, though sometimes, to look at my posts, you’d not think so, 99% of the time it’s a case of my finsgers not keeping up with my brain, or vice versa!! i should proof read more carefully, if you’re quick enough after i post this, you might spot a few mistakes before i read my post and then edit it… even then one or four slip though.
in English, we don’t use a Z in the case of ‘ise’ on the end of a word, it’s always been an ‘s’, long may it remain.
as for grammar, spelling, and reading in our schools, it’s rediclious, my youngest boys teacher was discussing my lad being a little behind on his reading, he’s not an academic type, he tries but gives up easy, give him a maths question or a set of spanners though….!
i just don’t think the school have time these days in the curriculum, my boys who are now both at big skool, have a two week time table ! why teach them lessons about being social? religious ed ? surely thats for the parents ? school should put more emphasis on being able to read / write properly, and be more articulate in their speech,
regarding grammar, i like to read and take a breath now an then, this is certainly one of the better forums i use in that regard, on my sea fishing forum there’s some truly shocking stuff going on, i know a few are dyslexic, but, them aside, there are professional people who you entrust your life to on there! one capitalises every first letter, others use no punctuation, etc.
oh well,
my screw ups were ‘neccessary’ on a van (he never knew til i told him after he stripped it to sell the van, and on another (in fact two things) i’ve written ‘whislt’ instead of whilst!
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quote :as for grammar, spelling, and reading in our schools, it’s rediclious, my youngest boys teacher was discussing my lad being a little behind on his reading, he’s not an academic type, he tries but gives up easy, give him a maths question or a set of spanners though….!
yes hugh its called interest.
at school a long time ago i was bottom in English but near top in maths.
the English teacher thought i was thick and said so repeatedly. he might have been right but the things i have done & learned over the years, i fail to see how i was beyond help.talking to a high school teacher some time ago said that should not happen today. the child will be separated and further coaching in that area.
interest is a funny thing.chris
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I was talking to a teacher last night.
She said that the national curriculum was to blame for many of the problems. They have to give classes on fringe subjects when they know fine well that the time would be better spent on basic skills. She was quite emphatic about it.
I say, teach them to read, write and add up, then send them out to work. Us employers will teach them what else they need to know for a job, and anything in which they have an interest they will learn for themselves. About twelve years old should do it. 🙁
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Chris and John, both bang on the mark !
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quote Hugh Potter:Chris and John, both bang on the mark !
I agree.
My son is like me, not interested in academic studies. He finds school a bore, but give him something to do with his mind and hands and there is nothing he can’t accomplish. Problem is he gets bored once he has finished a project, always needing to find new stimuli.
My daughter tho is top of her grade, she’s doing grade 6/7 studies, although she is in grade 5. She begs for more homework, but hates physical work. The school has no problem catering to my daughters needs, but struggle to keep kids like my son focused on the mundane.
When he comes out with me to work on his holidays, and he can see that he needs maths and English skills to do a better job, he knuckles down at school for a short while until he loses site of the benefits again.
School here puts more emphasis on foreign language (both my kids learn Chinese as part of the curriculum) but they struggle to teach my kids basic English.
By all means give them the opportunity to learn another language, but not at the expense of their native tongue.
I reckon 6 months in the work force would have my son up to speed, but he will not find a job 1st unless he is well educated before he gets a job…
Vicious circle.
Sorry to go off thread.
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mine wasnt a spelling mistake as such but we did a car showroom window many years ago for a brand new nissan micra at a scoop of £89995
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