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Raw, but c*nsored blabbing and blogging of a young journalista
and local news producer in Southern New England.
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Sunday, April 16, 2006
Misspelled
I hate it when I see "lastest" when people mean "latest." In local television we use the word "latest" quite a bit and thank goodness the humans reading it can recognize at the last possible second what is actually meant. Why don't people recognize there's an extra S in there? Spell checkers should recognize it as wrong too! Nobody cares anymore.
Today in Stop & Shop I saw a laminated, laser-printed sign at the checkout stand:
For the sake of the customer behind you, when you have finished emptying your cart, please push it foward.
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That is funny, because so many people SAY "foward", incorrectly dropping the first R, but I've never seen it SPELLED that incorrect way. There is NO way anybody in such a position could possibly be using a speech recognition mechanism to construct this cute little sign, so somebody must have thought, "Well, it SOUNDS like foward, so it must be SPELLED foward." While this somebody must be a decent businessman or manager, did he ever finish high school?
It aggravates me no end. I thought about getting a pen and writing in the R by hand to make it forward but then I saw it was laminated, and even though the store manager had obviously taken this initiative himself, the lamination had a feeling of permanance.Labels: Originally published
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