The message at the recycling company near my work now reads: ‘FREE’ complimentary gift Oh, right, so I do have to pay for it!

There’s a recycling & skip hire company near where I work which has one of the those big screens with scrolling messages. One of the messages includes the words: COMPLIMENTARY FREE GIFT Oh, really? You’re absolutely sure I don’t have to pay for that, now?

I really shouldn’t let bad grammar in song lyrics get to me, but I can’t help it! I do listen to an awful lot of music; I have my own personal selection on my MP3 player during the day, and listen to the radio during car journeys and to wake myself up in the mornings. [...]

This story has been doing the rounds in Ireland for quite some time, but An Garda Síochána (the Irish police force) have excelled themselves in winning an Ig Nobel prize, for literature too. Back in February, it was revealed that they’d written more than 50 tickets for driving offences to one person (see the BBC [...]

I’m a quite a fan of Engrish.com and its associated blogs, even if I’m personally too lazy to post anything to them. But I was amused by the instructions on a packet of disposable chopsticks that I was given at a Chinese restaurant the other day, and decided that I might as well share them… [...]

After featuring that lovely cushion with that interesting I’TS, how could I not smile when I saw a report about soft toy alphabet blocks with worrying misspellings? [See this article in the Guardian.] I especially like the YATCH – even more worryingly, when I tried searching the BBC News website for an article about this, [...]