Now, this might just be me......

In our nearest town is a well known dry cleaners. They recently had, what looked like, a professionally done poster in the window. It read: "Clothes altered, zips replaced, trowsers shortened".

I had to cross the street whenever I passed the shop; it irritated me so much. And it was there for weeks!

sunseeker, that was one which got my late DM fizzing!

In a local shop window:

FLAT TO LET
2 BEDROOMS
UNFURNISHED PHONE
01xxx xxx xxx

I suppose a furnished phone would have little curtains over the numbers for when it was asleep, and perhaps a little bed and a chair. Poor unfurnished one though. I can't help wondering if it gets cold in the winter...

I love this "corner" of Gransnet. Gentle, humorous and nastiness free.

lillie . The British do love their 'bottom' jokes.

"Cornwall's Queen's Birthday Honourees". This was a headline in the local paper yesterday. I'm all for careful grammar,but this struck me as clunky grammar!

"Daisy*, Churchill also said in French "'When I look at my bottom, I see it is divided into two parts," because he used the word derriere to mean his past/behind! (Quand je regarde mon derriere, je vois qu'il est divise en deux parties.)

Today, in the Daily Mail Online, Princess Beatrice was described as being the seventh in line to the thrown.Journalist should re-read their copy before posting.
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Never thought of myself as a pedant but the broadcaster on my local radio who reports on the traffic sends me demented when he insists on saying that roads are "slippy"!!!!!

This has really made me laugh. Thank you all for a cheerful moment

Didn't Churchill exclaim, at hearing somebody's name: "Bossom! Bossom? That's neither one thing nor the other!"

Like Leonora, I found this resurected thread this morning, and it has cheered me up. I almost fear to read Gransnet these days, as there has been a lot of nastiness recently. More please.

Love that Katek , made me chuckle

Thank God I have stumbled across this forum. I have just given up on AIBU?,where some rather nasty bickering has broken out; and how I rejoiced to find Which Tyler, and China bisons, or were they basins?
I shall return.

Posted this on another thread but thought you lot might like it. Choral performance at cathedral
this weekend advertised as Tedious Laudanam.......

Annefrance How about this for an explanation?
While and whilst mean the same when we use them as conjunctions. They both mean ‘during the time that something else happens’, or ‘in contrast with something else’. While is much more common than whilst, and whilst sounds more formal

Well these poor 'mainly women' who are "on train journeys over a 10 month period" have all my sympathy a few days a month are enough for most of us. However do they manage?

I asked in another post - does anyone know when one should use while and whilst? always stumps me.

I bet she's popular!

Jocork - I must belong to the Grammar Police too and have raised DGD to notice such mistakes! Now she is 13 she regularly has to point out grammar mistakes to teachers in their work on the whiteboard or in handouts etc - not pupils' work! And this is a really good secondary school! ?

At the end of last term my GD and 3 other pupils each had to do a PowerPoint Presentation to various school dignatries on top of other work to gain a Baccalaureate. Fortunately all 4 reached the required level and the Head Mistress was so pleased with them she gave them a Headteachers Commendation Award (sic) badge at the end of term assembly - with not an apostrophe in sight! My DGD (13) was shocked to see the bad grammar when she looked at her badge at home. She casually mentioned it to 2 members of the English Department last week and they were horrified, to say the least! I believe an email of complaint has been sent by the Head of English, but as yet no corrected badge has been awarded! No wonder the apostrophe is disappearing!

During the last but one General Election, a local paper ran the headline: "Candidates grilled on bypass".

"Don't tell 'em your name Pike!" Loved that programme.

A bit like Cpl Jones of Dad's Army then.

Reported WW2 newspaper headline:

"Eighth army push bottles up German rear"

I'm saying nothing.......

In the same local paper a while back was an ad for a flat to rent in Appledore, it said "would suit single person or small couple"

Do you think it might have been one of those weather house things?