Illiterate Britain

[TvrTone]

Personally I cant' see anything wrong!

http://news.uk.msn.com/photos/photos.aspx?cp-docum...

[Racefan_uk]

You REALLY have to get up earlier...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[MKnight702]

TvrTone said:

cant'

I hope that was irony.

[The Lukas]

Bunch is idiot's

[SGirl]

To be quite fair, some of those are obviously typos - innocent errors rather than somebody being thick. But then again, if you have a short sign to post up, just how hard is it to proofread it before it goes to print?

Standards have slipped alarmingly in this country.

[Neil H]

Woah.

[jamesson]

TvrTone said:

Personally I cant' see anything wrong!

I hope that's deliberate!

[Bing o]

The number of illiterate people on here who use "of" instead of "have" are most saddening - clearly some of them are reasonably intelligent, yet cannot differentiate between two totallu different words - I can forgive a misplaced apostrophe, but not the wrong bloody word!!

[TvrTone]

Racefan_uk said:

You REALLY have to get up earlier...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Just goes to prove that despite logging into PH about 20-30 times a day, (which I do) you can still miss something!

Sorry

[jamesson]

Bing o said:

The number of illiterate people on here who use "of" instead of "have" are most saddening - clearly some of them are reasonably intelligent, yet cannot differentiate between two totallu different words - I can forgive a misplaced apostrophe, but not the wrong bloody word!!

Totallu?

[Alex]

Bing o said:

The number of illiterate people on here who use "of" instead of "have" are most saddening - clearly some of them are reasonably intelligent, yet cannot differentiate between two totallu different words - I can forgive a misplaced apostrophe, but not the wrong bloody word!!

Can you forgive totallu made-up words?

[Bing o]

Alex said:

Bing o said:

The number of illiterate people on here who use "of" instead of "have" are most saddening - clearly some of them are reasonably intelligent, yet cannot differentiate between two totallu different words - I can forgive a misplaced apostrophe, but not the wrong bloody word!!

Can you forgive totallu made-up words?

As I siad <ahem>, I can forgive a typo (y and u are next to each other on the keyboard), but using the wrong word entirely is another matter.

[Kateg28]

I saw a pub in Leicestershire with a giant professional sign over the beer garden that read:

Famililies Welcome

The barmaid was really confused when I asked her about it. She got the landlord, probably to ask him what to do about me. He looked at the sign and told me it had been up for 2 months and no one had noticed. He was not impressed.

[maxrider]

Bing o said:

The number of illiterate people on here who use "of" instead of "have" are most saddening - clearly some of them are reasonably intelligent, yet cannot differentiate between two totallu different words - I can forgive a misplaced apostrophe, but not the wrong bloody word!!

Can we include the "better then" and "more that" idiots in that as well?

[Kermit power]

Bing o said:

Alex said:

Bing o said:

The number of illiterate people on here who use "of" instead of "have" are most saddening - clearly some of them are reasonably intelligent, yet cannot differentiate between two totallu different words - I can forgive a misplaced apostrophe, but not the wrong bloody word!!

Can you forgive totallu made-up words?

As I siad <ahem>, I can forgive a typo (y and u are next to each other on the keyboard), but using the wrong word entirely is another matter.

You siad nothing of the sort, dear boy!

[Pothole]

[littlegreenfairy]

I can't post the pic until the other half gets back on Friday, but in Comet there was a sign that said "Save £5 when brought together"

They were printed and all over the toast and kettle section.

[CypherP]

littlegreenfairy said:

I can't post the pic until the other half gets back on Friday, but in Comet there was a sign that said "Save £5 when brought together"

They were printed and all over the toast and kettle section.

Comet have a toast section?! Brilliant!

[Risotto]

One of our local shops has just closed down so I doubt they care now but for many years the shop name above the frontage read 'Carpets Galour'.

There's also a sweet shop called 'Fugde Corner'!

Edited by Risotto on Wednesday 29th September 12:43

[sneijder]

Joking aside, I know plenty of folk back in England who can't read or write at a decent level. All left school with GCSE passes.