Words cannot adequately describe the simultaneous horror and amusement I felt when I spotted this cushion in a local ‘cheap’ shop.

Let’s face it, we’ve all seen apostrophes abused in horrible ways. (And no, Susan, I’m not referring to the time you stole one.) But this sign in my local chippie (aimed at the schoolkids who swarm there at lunchtimes) set my mind wandering: HAND’S OFF WINDOW’S PLEASE Which of these might be a valid interpretation? [...]

How a comma is seriously affecting a contract – the placing of a second comma allows for a very (financially) large contract to be cancelled with only a year’s notice instead of five.[Link shamelessly nicked from Neil Gaiman's blog.]

The BBC online magazine and the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) ran a competition before Christmas for people to write letters which could be punctuated different ways to give different meanings: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4583594.stm The winners are really clever, particularly the first one. This sort of thing has always tickled me, my favourite one being: A [...]