This has been on my phone for ages and I’ve never got round to posting it. For such an impact page opener, you’d think The Telegraph would know it should either be ‘the battle’s over’ or ‘the battles are over’.
This might look like a bog-standard misspelled sign, hastily put up with no real regard to spelling conventions. And yes, it certainly is; only there were FOUR of these signs in the park near my house, with wet written ‘weet’ on each […]
Apostrophe use never fails to amaze me. For instance, on this sign, why do ‘ciders’ and ‘dogs’ take an (incorrect) apostrophe, while snacks, beers, wines and lagers get none? Unless the sign writer has some ‘in cider’ knowledge, plurals never take apostrophes.
Not many things in this world are grimmer than a baby changing mat in a public toilet. Usually covered in greasy sheen and speckled with unidentified crumbs (breadsticks? skin particles? actual faeces?), they should really only ever be used as an absolute last resort. This particular example caused even more of an […]