The American doughnut shop, Krispy Kreme has recently opened a store in Liverpool One, prompting an opening day visit from Carol and myself. Now normally I'm not a big lover of doughnuts - except jam doughnuts which are yummy and covered in sugar - but the smell of warm doughnuts really makes me feel quite ill and to imagine eating one is even worse. Luckily, the Krispy Kreme doughnuts are cold and come in many different flavours such as cookies and kreme (intentional incorrect spelling), lemon meringue pie and strawberries and kreme.
As I had never visited a Krispy Kreme before, I decided to have a look on the website before going along, to see what I might fancy buying (I didn't want to be that person at the front of the queue, unable to decide what they want and annoying everyone around them). As I did this however, I came across a word spelled incorrectly.
Apologies for the poor image, it's the best I can do - although you can visit here to see it properly, just scroll down to the bottom of the page. As you will see, the word 'rasberry' has been spelled incorrectly and should read 'raspberry'. Now I do feel raspberry is one of those tricky words with a useless letter put in the middle of the word, I'm sure with the express purpose of making spelling difficult for people - can anyone tell me what the point of it is? Either way, no matter which side of the argument you're on, the spelling is currently 'raspberry' thereby, unfortunately, making this an error on the Krispy Kreme website.
On the plus side, I did like their doughnuts!
Welcome to my blog, focusing on the mistakes and downright bad English that can be found in various outlets for the written word. I have decided to record on this blog any errors I come across; whether it be emails, restaurant menus, online articles or in the printed press. I would like to stress now that my English isn't perfect and I don't know all the rules and my intention is not to berate or preach, just to inform. I will also inevitably make spelling errors and typos myself!
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
It's a Doddle website
I came across a spelling error today on the website www.itsadoddle.com - more specifically http://www.itsadoddle.com/wedding/events/uploaded_files/Royal%20Beach%20Nov%202011%20Wedding%20Show%20Media%20Pack%20V1_1.pdf
I was looking for a possible publication to send an article off to but came across this mistake instead:
As you can see, the author of this article spelled 'disappointment' incorrectly with two s's and 1 p. We all do this from time to time with a variety of words so it is excusable to make the mistake but not to leave it unchecked.
I was looking for a possible publication to send an article off to but came across this mistake instead:
As you can see, the author of this article spelled 'disappointment' incorrectly with two s's and 1 p. We all do this from time to time with a variety of words so it is excusable to make the mistake but not to leave it unchecked.
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Disney's Hercules DVD
Hello all
It has been some time since my last post - life has just been a bit hectic and has been getting in the way of the day to day things - such as this blog! My apologies and I will strive to post more often.
Today's error is courtesy of my friend Carol who came to mine last night and discovered this error on my Hercules DVD case. There is a song in the film (which we watched) called Zero to Hero and as part of the bonus extras on the DVD there is a sing-a-long version of the song - it's such a shame however, that they name the song as 'Zero the Hero'.
A small error that I doubt any child will ever notice but Carol did and it's an error that was easily avoidable by just knowing the song title properly! :-)
Hope you're all out enjoying the sunshine!
I will update with a photo as soon as I take one
It has been some time since my last post - life has just been a bit hectic and has been getting in the way of the day to day things - such as this blog! My apologies and I will strive to post more often.
Today's error is courtesy of my friend Carol who came to mine last night and discovered this error on my Hercules DVD case. There is a song in the film (which we watched) called Zero to Hero and as part of the bonus extras on the DVD there is a sing-a-long version of the song - it's such a shame however, that they name the song as 'Zero the Hero'.
A small error that I doubt any child will ever notice but Carol did and it's an error that was easily avoidable by just knowing the song title properly! :-)
Hope you're all out enjoying the sunshine!
I will update with a photo as soon as I take one
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