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My daughter used to run for a club in the National Junior League. They had some t shirts printed for the squad but they came back with National Junoir League.
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Spelling & Grammar Faux Pas on 14:05 - Aug 30 with 2719 views
One that still makes me smile, 30 odd years ago, a group of us used to play Laser Quest at David Lloyd's in Raynes Park.
You used to have to give your name to the Marshall's before the game commenced so they could add you to the live scoreboard. A friend of mine used to use the name Kryten as in Red Dwarf. They either misheard him or misspelt it but from then on, he was officially known as Cretin.
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Spelling & Grammar Faux Pas on 14:21 - Aug 30 with 2611 views
I'm a fully paid up member of the pedantry. Do not use would of if you mean would have. Learn the difference between of and off; they're, there and their; between lose and loose. Brexit brought many demands to tighten our boarders ( might work in dorms at Eton!).
Why do kids have to use like 5 times in a sentence.
Give me time, I'm certain to add others
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one's lifetime." (Mark Twain)
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Spelling & Grammar Faux Pas on 14:46 - Aug 30 with 2492 views
A few years back on the front cover of a QPR programme which would show a picture of a certain player, who may have had connections with the opposition and who would be subject to an interview within the pages. One time it was Clint Hill, spelt in capitals with a rather squarish font, placed quite close together, so it read CLINT HILL , but you really had to check the spelling of Clint twice as the L and I looked suspiciously like a U.
Years ago, I stumbled across an article in a marketing magazine about a free pen giveaway promotion run by My Guy magazine.
Said writing implement was attached to the front page with the following slogan underneath it:
"My Guy's pen is fantastic!"
The only problem was that some rascal in the creative team had deliberately reduced the amount of space between two of those words....
"Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1."
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Spelling & Grammar Faux Pas on 15:20 - Aug 30 with 2199 views
Around thirty years ago walking down Bloemfontein Road after a game there was a guy in front of me wearing a Los Angeles Raders jacket.
Not a spelling or grammar error but fast forward fifteen years and riding a train in Tunis the guy standing next to me was looking resplendent in his Prick Sports jacket.
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Spelling & Grammar Faux Pas on 15:58 - Aug 30 with 2003 views
It was in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, itself no stranger to safe-search filters over the years, when the then Conservative government under Ted Heath came up with the bright idea of abolishing counties that had existed since Doomsday Book and coming up with new titles for them. So, North Lincolnshire became South Humberside.
There was this place, North Lindsey College of Technology, NLCT, which, following the logic, had to be renamed. They came up with 'South Humberside Institute of Technology', and proudly exhibited the new four letters, each twenty feet high, at the entrance to the college.
Then, they realised what they'd done.
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Spelling & Grammar Faux Pas on 16:14 - Aug 30 with 1906 views
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