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Photo by AD

In their defense, the beverage does complete the meal.

(Thanks, AD!)

FRIDAY, December 19, 2012

It's Friday, and possibly your last office day of 2012 (as it is mine). Are you as excited about it as I am? Are you having as much of a hard time as I am staying focused? I have already made my list of things to do over the very short break, but I admit I'm mostly looking forward to not waking to an alarm every morning. I really hate that jerky little thing.

As 2013 looms ahead, I've been thinking about the future, and I'm very sad to report that I will, for the most part, be wrapping things up here at the spelling blog. I've had a FANTASTIC time sharing these crazy errors with y'all, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to dedicate to it the time it deserves what with the whole day job, and I hate having these posts up if I haven't given them all I've got. You guys deserve better! I want to thank all of you for checking in, sending submissions, and hanging in there during the past year! You guys are the best!

As submissions come in, I'll throw them up from time to time, in which case the automatic internet genies will automatically post them over at the Facebook, twitter, and tumblr pages. Keep an eye there for future posts.

Today's final Presented Without Comment is coming up, and again, thanks to all of you who've hung in there with me! It's been a blast!

When you see it...

My friend MLW just sent me an email which was kind of tough to link to, so I just made a screengrab, so you can have a little looksy.

That gift card thing seems like a good deal, no? 

At least they're consistent?

(Thanks, MLW!)

Link Roundup

Are you, like me, still working instead of off gallivanting somewhere for the holidays? I'm sorry. Here are some links to check out to help pass the time.

This error in this article is only noticeable if you parlais Francais. If we assume the gender indicated in the title is correct, then the verb in the second line of the first paragraph is incorrect. Which is especially sad seeing as how it's correct in the title. But, more importantly, the first line of the first paragraph says that the wine arrives tonight. Which means that you'd likely want the present tense of the verb, and not the past tense conjugation, so this seems all wrong to me. I think he wants to say the wine "is arriving" tonight, but putting those two words together creates passe compose, or past tense. In French, you just use present, right? It's been a long time since I had to deal with this, so y'all just tell me what's what.
(via LA Weekly, h/t DD)

The Godfather of Soul deserved better, y'all.
(via African American Funeral Programs from the East Central Georgia Regional Library, h/t AW)

A rundown of the year in typos, mistakes and corrections. I'm proud to have shared some of them with you.
(via The Atlantic Wire, h/t JR)

And because that's how I roll, here's my latest post over on Lucky's website. I don't THINK there's anything spelled wrong in there, but maybe?
(via Lucky's website)

Options...

Yet another screengrab that I took without making note of where I found it. I'm a busy person. I have things to do. I have to screengrab and go!

I wonder what side I was checking out...

It's like an afterthought, all the way down there at the end. It seems a little cruel to force the VEGETARIANS to skim all the foods they'd prefer to avoid to get to their offerings, but there you have it. And then, when they get down there, it's not even spelled right. That's kind of an extra dose of mean.

Perhaps they were too busy divvying up their menu's beef, chicken, and pork offerings into their own sections. That's weird, right? Menus, man. Getting more complicated every day.

Soup's on!

Another gem from AB's office building's cafe. Is this how this person SAYS this word?

Photo by AB

Can you see it? It says DUNPLINGS. It is wrong. Also, isn't it very technically chicken AND dumplings? Or is the chicken in the dumplings? And has the word dumplings ceased to have any meaning for everyone else? Dumplings dumplings dumplings. It sounds like something you'd do to a ball. Like "I'm going to dumpling this ball WAY into the endzone." Like it's an add-on to fling.

Dumpling!

(Thanks, AB!)

AWKWARD

Another little gem from DD in a local newspaper. Have a look:

Screengrab by DD

DD informs me that the name of the town is, in fact, "Loveland," and not this wonktastic abomination. Hopefully, they were quick to fix this, so Mr. Nelson was able to screengrab his own moment of fame as it SHOULD appear, and not have to share an incorrectly-spelled image with his friends and family. As a teacher, I'd guess that would be the worst. Or even, as a human. Y'know.

(Thanks again, DD!)