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Here is a mistake from an Scottish Premier League football web site. It's a quote from one of the pages from their web site.
........fitted with all the necessary equipment such as TV’s, DVD’s, Video players.
YOU DON'T NEED THE APOSTROPHE TO MAKE TV and DVD A PLURAL WORD.
AFTER ALL, YOU DO NOT HAVE AN APOSTROPHE IN PLAYERS, DO YOU!
Here are some mistakes that people from around the world have made in their attempt to use English to get their message over.
Cocktail lounge:
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.
On a main road:
TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS
IMPASSABLE.
On a poster:
ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO WE CAN HELP.
In a City restaurant:
OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS.
In a restaurant:
CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER.
In a cemetery:
PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR
OWN GRAVES.
On the menu of a restaurant:
OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR.
In the lobby of a hotel across from a monastery:
YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS COMPOSERS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY.
A sign posted in a tourist area:
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR FOREST CAMPING SITE THAT PEOPLE
OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS
THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE.
Hotel:
BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE
SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE.
Airline ticket office:
WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
It's not just overseas countries where the mistakes happen, here are some from Scotland- a bit harder to spot though.
EXAMPLE 1
Here is one from the web site of a football club.
"Enjoy tea, coffee pies and biscuits at half time......"ANSWER 1
EXAMPLE 2
Here is one from the same web site.
"If you would like the luxuary of our Hospitality Packages....."ANSWER 2
EXAMPLE 3
This one's from an advert for cars and was found in a national newspaper dated 26/10/2004. They were trying to say that they have far too many cars to list in the advertisement.
"To many cars to list....."ANSWER 3 More Below
EXAMPLE 4
This one is from an Education Newsletter. The article explains how young people came together to celebrate their creativity and artistic talent. Unfortunately, the author of the article didn't demonstrate his or her spelling talent in the article's headline.
"FASION SHOW 2004....."ANSWER 4
EXAMPLE 5
Here are two examples of the wrong use of the apostrophe. One is from a shop frontage and one from a community association
5a "ANGLER'S SHOP"
5b "MINERS WELFARE" Answer 5a and 5b
"Enjoy tea, coffee pies and biscuits at half time......"
Pies that taste of coffee would give this webmaster the boak. But there's nothing wrong with this if a pie that tastes of coffee does exist- but I doubt if it does. The sentence should have a comma after the word coffee.
"Enjoy tea, coffee, pies and biscuits at half time......"
If you want to learn more about the use of commas you could check out a programme called Target Skills which is available in Active IT areas in most libraries in South Lanarkshire. The part of Target Skills that contains information on commas is Level 1 Literacy, Sentence Focus. Even better, Contact Us and we will help you out.
"If you would like the luxuary of our Hospitality Packages....."
Luxuary is spelled incorrectly, it should be:
"If you would like the luxury of our Hospitality Packages....."
If you want to learn more about spelling you could check out a book that was originally written for people with dyslexia; it's called Alpha to Omega. It's better if you work with someone who is used to this book rather than use it yourself. If you Contact Us we can help out.
"To many cars to list....."
To is spelled incorrectly, it should be:
" Too many cars to list...."
If you want to learn more about spelling you could check out a book that was originally written for people with dyslexia; it's called Alpha to Omega. It's better if you work with someone who is used to this book rather than use it yourself. If you Contact Us we can help out.
" FASION SHOW 2004....."
'FASION' is spelled incorrectly, it should be:
" FASHION SHOW 2004...."
If you want to learn more about spelling you could check out a book that was originally written for people with dyslexia; it's called Alpha to Omega. It's better if you work with someone who is used to this book rather than use it yourself. If you Contact Us we can help out.
5a " ANGLER'S SHOP "
5b " MINERS WELFARE "
When you see an apostrophe in front of the letter 's' like the one shown above, that tells the reader there is only one angler. I would not like to be the owner of a shop that caters for one angler. Where you add the letter 's' to make the word tell the reader there is more than e.g. one angler then it is 's' apostrophe as shown below.
Answer 5a " ANGLERS' SHOP "
In this case there is no apostrophe and as the Welfare caters for more than one miner then it is once again 's' apostrophe as shown below.
Answer 5b " MINERS' WELFARE "
If you want to learn more about the apostrophe Contact Us.