I've earned my place on the grammar pedants bench

Personally I think emailing the company was a bit ott, not like the berkertex one here which was a public advertisement. My OH is a handyman/builder and quite often has to write notes like this, but he's dyslexic so when he writes "wet paint on cubard" I don't think you can moan.

I was in a local shop and saw a sign that said 'cheques will no longer be excepted'. I pointed out the mistake to the assistant, but I just got a blank look in return.

That's dreadful as it actually means the opposite of their intention. It kind of makes you want to go in there and pay by cheque to force them to acknowledge the mistake!

Tahdah - I understand that people may have problems with spelling, but this is a very large building company and the sign must have been proof-read (or should have been) before printing it! This wasn't just a hand-written note!

Ahem, 'pedants' bench' if you please.

I've got my quotation marks wrong now haven't I? I can never remember if it should be ' or ".

The parking machines in my local town have "coins excepted- 5p, 10p, 20p....." etc. written on them, when they actually mean accepted.

I was going to take a photo for the website someone set up (Hazel?) but couldn't remember if it was still going.

It was me Redhead. However I got so depressed by all the bad grammar out there that I stopped updating it ?

Sympathy!

I'm about to doctor the father's day card my son just made at nursery...