Archive for the 'misspellings & new words' Category

Contender for “best new word”

Galen found this exciting new job opportunity at Seven Days Classifieds. She notes, and it’s true, that we can’t know whether the employer or some website editor is to blame here.  But also? “Assitant” isn’t a word, and even the most basic of spell-checks would have caught it.  It doesn’t even have the Spell-Check Excuse.

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Monday loopy giggle

Friday’s submission was Dave’s exciting discovery of a local shop that used an apostrophe correctly.  He did, however, temper his glee with this second submission. See, the mistakes here are obvious, but because it’s Monday morning I’m going to go ahead and giggle about the fact that it’s only hot and spicy prices that are [...]

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Freudian slip

Lisa says the most interesting thing about this sign is that there were others around the workplace that didn’t have the typo. She also notes that she does, indeed, appreciate her own patience.

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Tilting at windmills

Math teachers knowing how to spell?  That’s probibly a losing cause, Q. (Apologies to all the lovely math teachers who DO know how to spell! I know you exist!!)

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Corn on the?

Bobby Tables feels about this error that “The fact that it is itself a correction makes it all the sweeter.” Thanks, BT!

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First-time doozy!

This is Lisa S.’s first submission to RPB, and we love it! This is one of those that just gets me right here, you know?  I mean, this went through multiple people.  Either the store owner commissioned it this way and the sign-maker didn’t correct it, or the sign-maker did it this way and the [...]

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Is… a puzzlement.

Have I used that subject before?  Whatever, I don’t care.  Any day is better with a little Yul Brenner in it, even if his appearance is only in my head. This is from Kacia, who has written up her own description of the situation for y’all.  Take it away, Kacia! The Chinese herbs aisle at [...]

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Worth a second pass

Hard-core, I-liked-it-before-it-was-cool RPBers may remember this picture, which was the second post ever on this blog.  I’ve decided to resurrect it in honor of today’s “holiday.” Happy Valentine’s Day, people!

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Monday mental floss

Photo submissions from Shannon are like puzzles — he catches typos even I would usually stroll right past.  So here you go, troopers:  find the error. Happy Monday!

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Things you don’t want to eat

Michael postulates, “One presumes that ‘bok choy’ was corrected to ‘backhoe’?” I think that’s probably a pretty good bet.  Do we need to start a new category for buffets?

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