errors in report about errors

[winterbadger]

A supermarket has been forced to withdraw a set of toys designed to help toddlers learn to read because some of the words were misspelled.

The alphabet building blocks sold by Morrisons included a picture of an umbrella captioned 'Umberlla', a boat beside the word 'Yatch' and even an 'X Mas Tree'.

Suzanne Toulson complained to her local store in Duckinfield, Greater Manchester after seeing the toy , which had been bought by her son and daughter-in-law their nine-month old daughter Millie,.

But despite the spelling errors, the store initially refused to take the product off the shelves, saying replacements were on order but the existing stock would be allowed to run out.

What I love best about this article in the Telegraph is not the subject but the fact that the third sentence has two punctuation errors and is missing a crucial word.

Comments

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

What I love best about this article in the Telegraph is not the subject but the fact that the third sentence has two punctuation errors and is missing a crucial word.

It's worse than that; they've misspelled Duckinfield. It should be Dukinfield.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Now I'm imagining a boat sitting at anchor, with YATCH painted across the fantail in gold leaf.

[winterbadger]

What immediately sprang to my mind was an image of Graham Chapman wearing a huge plasticine nose and saying "Yes, it's SPELLED 'Luxury Yacht', but it's PRONOUNCED 'Throatwobblermangrove'..."

:-)