Excellent Spelling At Duane Reade
Submitted to our Flickr pool, an excellent sign at the Duane Reade on E. 51st in NYC.
Hey, we all make mistakes.—MEGHANN MARCO
This Just In: The Cooler [I Hate Duane Reade]
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That was obviously written by an LOLcat. And for a cat, that's pretty good spelling. I can has coller now?
Me fail english? That's unpossible
The collie is out of services? I thought they used St. Bernards for that kind of work.
If the coller did have servies, I sure as hell wouldn' t tuch it. If, on the other hand, it didn't have servies, I'd probably tuch it. Unless there was sign.
whats was this trying to say?
I'm willing to bet that more people have actually read the sign than would have otherwise. :)
We all may make mistakes but not all of us are retarded.
According to the linked page, it's "the cooler is out of service, please don't touch it". I have no idea how they got "servies" from "service" though.
Ohhhhhh... COOLER! I kept thinking it had something to do with a collar but that didn't make sense... the rest of the sign didn't help much either.
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What boorish spelling. The clerk obviously didn't go to Fieldston like I did.
Really fast typing in wordpad..
Not to mention poor typing skills...
im in ur office
steelin ur dikshunary
The best misspelled sign I've ever seen was in a Subway. There was a Post-it over the Diet Coke dispenser that read "Out of Dieat Cock"
Sadly, this was before the age of camera phones so I don't have a picture of it.
I'd guess at someone whose first language isn't English. English sucks on spelling. There's letters all over the place that don't get pronounced and isn't consistently crazy. Sometimes you pronounce that letter, sometimes you don't. It makes English spelling or reading hell to learn.
I'm impressed that the apostrophe was right, though. Usually that's the first to go.
I really need to start populating my Flickr account. I have a picture of an ad for a fishing boat that mentions "hydraulic wenches."
@synergy: I've seen this or worse from native English speakers. It's not much easier to remember all the rules even if you speak the language your whole life.
This is pretty egregious, though :-)
It appears that they can't reade.