Giz reader @thewilkshake noticed this fine piece of wording at a Woolies in Adelaide. Unable to stand the lack of capitalisation and odd use of apostrophes, he set about fixing it. I just hope he works there! Actually, more kudos to you, good sir, if you don’t!
Rod
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 2:38 PMI salute this man and his endeavours.
Luke
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:34 PMYep… he is now the newest and quite possibly lamest super hero.
“Grammar Man” correcting incorrect spelling everywhere!!!
Stew
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:00 PMI think it’s Spelling Man who corrects incorrect spelling everywhere.
Spelling Man’s logo is a red squiggle, while Grammar Man’s is a green squiggle.
Sometimes the both parter up together to tackle the most malevolent of crimes against the English language.
Dre
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 5:18 PMDon’t forget Inconsistency Man and his blue squiggle!
Penmonicus
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 5:22 PMThey got nothing on CorrectaGirl.
olearymo
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:15 PMLamest? Are you forgetting Aquaman? Because dude, really.
Mr Odd
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 6:49 PMYou guys are like my wife, she can a typo from a 100 paces.
Shadow
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 7:00 PMAnd yet you still managed it.
Stephen
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 7:33 PMI’m guessing you mean “she can pick a typo…”?
Lillee
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:05 AMlol epic fail of the day!
Gorhob
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 2:52 PMOh man, you sure taught the guy that made that sign a lesson… Y’know, even though he’ll probably never see that, ever.
Matt
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:01 PMI believe you mean “the guy *who* made that sign”
Craig
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 5:44 PMShouldn’t that be ‘whom’?
Sam
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 6:58 PMBoth are accepted as being correct.
Matthew
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 7:08 PMI don’t believe so. Turn it into a question: “Who wrote the sign?” You’d answer with, “He wrote the sign.” – so ‘who’ is correct.
I believe you mean “the guy by whom that sign was made”.
olearymo
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:17 PMOh man, you sure taught the guy that corrected that sign a lesson… Y’know, even though he’ll probably never see your comment, ever.
Jon
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:04 PMI saw the grammar fail at my local woolies too!
Maurice
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:04 PMI agree with Rod. Very well done.
SPK
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:09 PMMaybe we should all print out that sign, take it along to our local Woolworths and fix that grammatical error nation wide.
Ronnie
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:57 PMInspired by this http://bit.ly/oUyUMh ?
lulz
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:16 PMBrilliant! There is no excuse for poor grammar.
Craig
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 5:46 PMI blame the government because her pension is barely enough to live on.
wdragon
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:19 PMWell the word ‘fail’ when used as a noun isn’t 100% grammatically correct either!
Matt
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:43 PMYes, that should read “Now with less grammatical failure”.
technole
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:26 PMinteresting!
Brad T
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:30 PMShouldn’t that be
Woolworths’ Grammar Fail, Before and After
Ben Zemm
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 3:46 PMMaybe the subtitle should be “Now with fewer grocer’s apostrophe’s [sic]“
Evan
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:15 PMhttp://twitpic.com/28ux2z Every time I see this sign it reminds me that “mediocre” is spelt with an “re” not an “er”…
olearymo
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:18 PMThe only thing more annoying than a Grammar Nazi?
The people who bitch about them: “God where sick of you’re crap gramar natsi!!! Not everything has to be totally correct lolololz! Get a life u lozer!”
*shudders*
Gorhob
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 9:21 PMNo, the nazis are worse.
olearymo
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 9:23 PMcase in point.
Gorhob
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 9:24 PMlolololz! Get a life u lozer
Damien
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:24 PMhttp://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif
Steve
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:27 PMPassive aggressive smugness at its finest.
Virus__
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:28 PMSomeone tweet this to the Gruen Transfer pronto! Just for them to make fun at Woolworths.
Angus
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:31 PMNice work
HindenLagen the Damned
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:46 PMYes the capitalisation was bad, however, I was under the impression that using an apostrophe on certain plurals was acceptable (if not encouraged), in numbers, acronyms and one/two letter words to avoid confusion. For example, “mind your P’s and Q’s”, as opposed to, “mind your Ps and Qs”, which may be confusing.
Graeme
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 5:05 PMNo, not acceptable. Common perhaps, but not acceptable. Along similar lines, you often see 80′s, 90′s. That’s also wrong, it should be ’80s, ’90s. Ps and Qs is correct, P’s and Q’s is wrong by any measure, unless you count sheer volume of numpties getting it wrong as a measure.
Jack
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:47 PMthis site always manages to post suck fucking cool news :D
I love it.
Steve
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 4:58 PMI know for a fact that he DOESN’T work at that Woolies store.
Wilkshake
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 6:05 PMAnd how do you know that?
Mitch
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 7:03 PMProbably for the same reason I know he doesnt work there ;)
FlyingKanga
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 5:03 PMGrammer Nazi’s these day’s.. :P
Steve
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 8:28 PMI’d be concerned if they were Grammer (sic) Nazis.
glennc
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 5:28 PMi actually don’t have a problem with the original.
Preston de Guise
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 6:19 PMAnd yet he didn’t eliminate the ampersand. What a lost opportunity!
Kirsco
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 6:51 PMPERFECT!
This person should definitely attend International Correct Everyone’s Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation Day!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123044844456570
http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Correct-Everyones-Grammar-Spelling-and-Punctuation-Day/196353470423440
Matthew
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 7:09 PMMy local Coles has “muesli bars”, but right next to them is the “museli”. Why?!
Stephen
Monday, August 8, 2011 at 7:34 PMMisused apostrophes:( Good work, @thewilkshake.