Good grief!

Nelliemoser, me too! Or should that be I too?

Nelliemoser, love it!

A guy I worked with once applied for a job enclosing a copy of his "Colliquium Vitae".

Here is one for the pedants. (From my sons collection.)

Well we'll just have to grin and bare it (my favourite)

Some people put those who are good at grammar on a pedal stool.

When I was young, the job centre had a sign over one of the desks offering loan parents. I was tempted to ask If I could borrow one.

And singing ' Yes! we have no banana's'. ( see what I did there?)

Chester Draws sounds like a good name for a music hall comedian.
I imagine him wearing a straw boater.

My favourite is "escapegoat" instead of scapegoat...

A local carpet warehouse is selling vinlys as well. (Had hard job keyboarding that-spell checker kept trying to correct it!)

I may have posted this before, but 'defused' lighting in the garage of an advertised property had me slightly worried.

I hope you get the opportunity to give them "peace" of yours nelliemoser!

A very small plot of land near here is advertised as 172m sq. I hope the buyer will not be too disappointed with how many houses he could put on it.

There is a mobility equipment company which comes to local markets
whose van had? still has the slogan "For your piece of mind."

This sort of error annoys me intensely. There is no excuse. Some grammatical oddities are down to local dialects, but we seem to see more and more of these spelling errors these days.

Nor me, luckygirl, unless of course the logo-painters don't know either. Depressing thought...

I can never understand why the companies that paint logos etc. on the sides of vans, or make banners etc. do not tell the punters they have got it wrong. A builder's van in our drive had a row of apostrophes all over his van where none should have been.

I'm drawn to this thread. My chest is heaving with laughter.

A job alert came up on my email asking for an operative with "dextrose fingers". Took me a while to work out they probably meant "dexterous". (or is it "dextrous"?).

Estate Agents are the best for a good laugh for those of us old enough to count without a calculator and spell without spell checkers.
I just love deceptively spacious (are room sizes flexible now?) and sizeable garden (are gardens difficult to measure and they have mastered how to get the size)
SPF

The five shillings I got, the postal order took more working out.

... and I hope they cleaned up the upholstery in those vans. They have potential to be very mucky after all those births.

My DD texted me while she was on holiday to tell me which draw the cat's brush was in. When I remonstrated she claimed that it had been a long day and she was tired And she got a A for A Level English!

Chuckle! I think that's understandable though. We don't use the word berth much nowadays. People just say beds, or "sleeps four". People below a certain age or with no knowledge of boats (you know, yachts, those floating caravans) may never have come across the word berth written down. It sounds the same as birth.

I`ve lost count of the number of ads I`ve seen for touring caravans for sale, that are advertised as having whatever number of births, rather than berths. Makes me imagine lots of babies being born whilst their mums are on holiday!

Pheonix When did you last use an estate agent? Must have been ages ago as imo they are not particularly literate. 'Comprises of', every word beginning with a capital, no idea what to do with an apostophe. I could go on and on............................