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Missing letters, etc.

How do typos happen on 100-year old hand-drawn blueprints? (It's a little hard to read; it says "West Elevtion.")


Yeah, so the word contains all five vowels. It's still a good idea to get them in the right order.


The part that hurts most about this one is that I know the folks that designed the poster.


Zeke found this one on the UC Santa Cruz campus. No spelling majors apparently.


I found this on the Web after my curiosity got the better of me. Some nut with a hand-painted sign on one of the major streets in town urged people to look up the alternative presidential candidates. I did, and found that Chuck Baldwin and his peeps can't proofread, nor can they design attractive websites.


Another Zeke find... he's a big mushroom fan, so I'm sure this one jumped right out at him.


This one was hiding in plain sight at Mike's office. He said he had passed it by for years before a visitor noticed it and drew it to his attention.


And the coup de grace: a poster by "Accurate Productions." Accurate, my a$$. Comunity. Securety. Latonville. Willets. Gaberville. And that's just the bottom half.

2009. Now with more blog posts.

The holidays are over, and I don't have to make any more Christmas presents! No more excuses, here's a post or two.

Wow!

People do actually read my blog! For some reason, I had things set up so that I wasn't receiving e-mail notifications when people left comments. That was not a good idea. I fixed it though, and may feel obligated to post more often now that I know you're out there.

I have a pretty good sized backlog of stuff to post... I need to put all of my crafting on hold and get back to blogging. (See lynnerd.com for some of my other adventures.)

Here's a good one from the mega-post to come. I nearly gave my husband whiplash when I slammed on the brakes and pulled over to snap a photo of this sign.

Road Trippin'

From Willits, CA: Put down the doobie and get out your dictionary. That's 'Brazilian Amethyst' and 'Moroccan Handicrafts,' people.


From Crescent City, CA: They have a pool in the door? I'd like to see that. (And the people at the Jacuzzi Company probably have mixed feelings about their brand name becoming a household name... especially when people can't spell it correctly.)


In Crescent City, California's Home Depot store: 10% off the word APPLIANCES, too.

More apostrophe abuse.

Yikes! It's going to be one of those days. I'm going to upload so many pics that I may end up captioning them all wrong. So be it. First up, more apostrophe mayhem. Some of these are really old—I've just gotten around to pulling them off my cell phone. Enjoy! (And I apologize if I've posted them before and just didn't remember.)


No explanation needed. (The apostrophe isn't needed either.)


Just say it out loud before you print it, folks, "I love my country; I hate it is leaders." Nope, doesn't work. Remove the apostrophe. Ahhh. Much better.


Whose affordable garage solution? The Bay Area's! That's right, it's possessive!


...And the coup de grace, found by Hank. OMG, I don't even know where to start. Some of my favorites are Jehovah's Witness's, Sport's Nut's, and even though they don't have misused apostrophes: Loud Mouth Women and High Fullutent. This photo alone is enough to keep the Compulsive Proofreader busy for a year.

Apostrophe-palooza!

An ode to the misuse of apostrophes.
(limerick inspired by Holly)

Plural or possessive, it's confusing
befuddled by whether or not to be using
an apostrophe 'S'
when used at its best
is bewitching, bewildering and bemusing

Okay, so I'm not a poet... I won't do that again. Here are some prime examples, collected by myself lately (and others when noted) on how NOT to use apostrophes. My thoughts: doesn't everyone get taught this in American schools at some point? How can people think that grammar, spelling and punctuation are unimportant? Ugh!


This was at Andy's grandma's retirement home. Old folks respect punctuation. It must drive them nuts everytime they pile into that van.


Liz says:
"We had dinner at Ubuntu in Napa a couple of weeks ago. Excellent food, but the evening was marred by this unnecessary apostrophe. As soon as I saw it, I took this to send to you. That third drink on there? The Bellini with the rose-geranium sugar on the rim? SO AWESOME."


Signs on the freezer cases in Longs Drug in Arcata.


On a taco truck in Arcata. There's also a different restaurant in Arcata that uses a proper name as the name of the restaurant, and their signage doesn't have an apostrophe. It makes me want to get out my permanent marker and do a little helpful graffiti.

Another gem from the T-S. Thanks to Jen for unearthing this one!
"A landmark decision for all Californian's quietly made history on August 20th in a Santa Cruz courtroom."
http://www.times-standard.com/ci_10461558?source=most_viewed