Just to reassure you that Greengrocer's Apostrophe's are alive and thriving in Leeds.

Please tell me that's three packages of strawberries for £1, and not three strawberries for £1.

This isn't Tashkent you know, a pound does stretch further than three strawberries ;)

They're punnets of strawberries.

Full Definition of PUNNET
British
: a small basket for fruits or vegetables

neat

Comes from 'pun' which was an old word for pound.

Any relation to the word "pint?" That's how our strawberry packages are measured.

Pints a Pound, the World Around.

pint, punt, punnet, whatever.

it's clear to me though, that you guys have a very different meaning for "pick your own" than we do over here.

Not really, market stalls have adopted the term in order to imply freshness and customer choice.
It makes them look more honest, as it means they're not selecting the mankiest ones and bundling them into a bag so you get home before you realise.

Pick your own is generally understood to be picking growing fruit at a farm. Although we probably have a shorter growing season than much of the US.
Note, the strawberries in the picture are not English. I hold out for the real thing (Waitrose do them best, and I'm not saying that because I used to work there).
Raspberries should be Scottish, ideally, strawberries English and apples French.

On a tangent, when I was 14-15 I worked at a pizza restaurant and one of the Managers was called Punit, he was a real stickler for detail. We called him Strawberry behind his back, because we were still schoolgirls and didn't really want a profession in the hospitality sector.

Noted.

Then it may be added to the list of mestakes on menu's.

We (in the biz) call the plastic punnets "clamshells" here. And sell them by imperial weight. 1lb strawberries is $2.50 this week. 3 sweet Mangoe's/$1. Both are on "Sale" /Special Offer this week. No such thing as the consumer protection act here. They never need be "regular" price anywhere. Strawbs are on "Sale" pretty much every week. and mangoes. and pineapples.

If you order a steak medium, and it comes well done...

...is that a missteak?

That is bad LOL

They use that pun in some of the promo literature for our store. This thread has become like a busman's holiday for me

Actually, here in Blighty a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter.
US pint is 16 fluid ounces and a GB one is 20.

Sent by thought transference

One picks strawberries by the quart in these parts, and liquid pints and quarts aren't the same measurement as fruit pints and quarts.

Dry and liquid measurement are not same. IIRC a pt. of honey weights 24 oz.

What's a pound of honey weigh?

About 180lbs these days, darlin'.

:D

Two from this week.

One in Haworth - a First Aid trip from the wonderful Limey, which I need to write up.
She spotted it before I did, but I wasn't very switched on that day.
Shame, because the food in that place was excellent.
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Holiday Inn Express.
Seriously?! International chain and you can't get a proof reader? Shocking.
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Stop second guessing and follow the instructions. :haha:

No, the top one was a very good independent café/ eaterie in Haworth.
I considered bearing all [sic] but decided Limey didn't need to see it again.

It was the sanitry message which was the HIExpress.

Thank you for the clarification, but I think you should still follow their instructions. :blush:

I shot these last summer and I'm just now getting to uploading them.

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Red faces as Transport for London misname Walthamstow station after revamp
 

Chaotic rebranding sees station named Waltamstow on new signs at key transport hub

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With the Victoria Line having run through Walthamstow for 47 years, one would have hoped that Transport for London would have known how to spell the station’s name correctly.

But clearly not.

The renovation work which saw the station be renamed went rather awry with Walthamstow Station becoming Waltamstow Central.

Where the “h” went is a matter of conjecture, but it was not how London’s transport chiefs wanted to mark the handing over a route through the key hub in the north east of the capital by London Overground.

It did not take long for the handful of signs to be the butt of humour from sharp-eyed London commuters, who took to Twitter to record their disgust.

“These days if you make a mistake it can be spread all over the world on social media, so they have to take it down. It makes them look like idiots,” James Clark, 64, told the Waltham Forest Guardian.

Daily Telegraph

Handful of signs? That sounds expensive to change.
The obvious solution is for Walthamstow to change it's name to Waltamstow. Problem solved...

for Transport for London. :haha:

That was one of two stations I could go home via when I lived in London.
Take it down?
Take it down???
I'd have had them in the bloody stocks for that!

And that's me being nice, because they should have been chained up and left to drown at Blackwall. So don't say I'm not reasonable.

:D

For some Brits, it seems an "H" makes a "ell" of a difference.

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Groooaaan. :haha:

http://s1.postimg.org/j1f33i9a7/Aylesbury.jpg

The Bucks Herald.

I've also seen it spelt as 'Alesbury'. The long gone Aylesbury Brewery Company could have had a field day with that.

Oh gods this is everywhere here... Does it have to be restricted to restaurant menus?

I mean... There's this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...of_Israel.jpeg
I went to them to register a complaint last week
(My immigrant just wasn't absorbent enough).

Outraged? By a mispelling? They'd never survive in the U.S..

Outraged by an official sign for their town being misspelt.

I don't think people are particularly outraged by spelling errors generally.

Maybe we have a different definition for outraged here?
I've never been outraged by any porn. Sickened by some I've come across accidentally, but mostly it's either a turn on or it's not.

But yes, I do think it's outrageous that the Highways Agency, or whoever makes these signs, cannot proof check the name of a LOCAL town before erecting a sign.

Felt the same about the Walthamstow sign.
There's no excuse for it.
Menus and market signs are all very funny, but you can choose not to buy if you're really that bothered (I am generally just amused). But the station signs and road signs, who pays? We do.

Damnit. Now you've been and gone and made me sound like The Taxpayers' Alliance.

Well it's true here also. Commercial sign mistakes are amusing, but screw-ups by government agencies provokes more anger than mirth.

Yes, it's another apostrophe catastrophe.

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Unfortunately, I have a prior engagement on the 28th, so will be unable to attend. :rolleyes:

Another old favourite...
The shop that can't be moved.

No matter how much you push the envelope, it's stationary.

http://s18.postimg.org/m6a6lu7d5/img120.jpg

I wonder what it was known as informally?

Taken in Torrington, Wyoming during my last visit in 2004.
I really would like to make a return visit, but I don't know when, or if, I shall get the opportunity..

Street View link.

I personally can not get past the image brought to mind when I read "Super 8" and hear "supperate". The very last thing I want to do is lie down there. **shudder** :vomit:

Trying to purchase "stationary coke" would make for a fantastic Monty Python style sketch.

http://s27.postimg.org/p0k33on6b/Bil...be_annoyed.jpg

I imagine that Bill will not be at all pleased.

So Bill's a whore, what's the problem?

The funniest thing to me is that it's written as a plea.
Won't someone ask in the fish & chip shop? Oh the humanity!

Sundae has asked me to post this on her behalf.

http://s15.postimg.org/msq7ffxh7/IMG_0211.jpg

I assume that the solders of toast helped the current to flow.

'Scrabbled Egg'? One should never play with one's food.

Slavish obedience to auto correct or rank incompetence? The jury is still out on that one.

How big is that, a sign or printed on a menu/table card/napkin?

It's a sign in the window - A4.
I was looking especially at the breakfasts (nom nom nom) and when I noticed the errors I took a photo.
I didn't bother to check the rest of it, so you're just seeing what I saw.

Oh shit, a sign in the window? Scare them away before they even get inside and get a whiff that might temp them. Major ooops. :haha:

The thing is, there are SO MANY cafes/ tea shops/ eateries in this town, selling the same and usually at lower prices.
I know that independents can't compete with large chains (actually I think Wetherspoons is the only one with national buying power) and I do not begrudge anyone a living. But for me, that's like having surly staff or dirty cutlery. It can so easily be avoided. It's just silly.

I'm tempted, I must admit.
After going into 'Spoons last Sunday week and they couldn't even get toast right.
It's almost like a reverse appeal - if people still eat there even with the inept signage, maybe the food really is good.

Been culling my old photos.
Found these two I took and never posted.
I've actually been kind in the recruitment pic, by removing all the contact details.
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On the Princess Cruises advert it may seem I'm being a little picky (well, yes I am) but these cruises are expensive. It doesn't say much to me about their attention to detail if there can be three mistakes in one small advert.
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Daily Telegraph

mmmm, ahhhh, fresh cotton hand soap, now with more dandelion.

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I wouldn't think I'd want anything to smell like lion teeth.

well, to be honest, it smells like soap. it's "supposed" to have that fresh cotton scent. why they chose a dandelion blossom gone to seed as the image for "cotton" is just a brain fart on their marketing staff's part. this same soap now shows cotton, on the stem, just like this is dandelion on the stem. they're both kinda whitish, kinda roundish, kinda plantish.

that or someone thought that was a picture of cotton.