Every little helps

OK, so I nicked this image from a Twitter post by @theJeremyVine, but it is so good I had to use it. 

Luckily, since I no longer use Tesco for my major weekly supermarket dash, I am unlikely to spend enough to qualify for decapitation by falling tiles. 

I also like the “Every little helps” message. It clearly helps if you only spend a little at a time.

This sign are ungrammatical

London Borough of Barnet, write out 100 times: 'A singular noun such as "supplier" needs a singular verb such as "is".' 

Oh brother!

OK, so it isn't a sign, but I just couldn't ignore it. This is an illustration from an Amazon page advertising a Kindle edition of a translation of a famous Russian novel. The publisher, e-artnow Editions, has managed to insert an apostrophe that is not only uncalled-for but is also the wrong way round. Whatever happened to proofreaders?

Bargain offer

A great offer from Tesco. Buy any two of these £1.50 drink cans and you get a magnificent saving of exactly nothing!

Gained in translation

Apparently the line of Bengali text actually translates simply as "No loitering".

A plight to remember

 

Relics from the RMS Titanic lay on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean for a century before they were hauled up to star in a travelling exhibition. And now you can’t see them because they might have got damp!

Amazingly unremarkable

Branches of Poundland can now be found all over the UK, from Penzance to Elgin, from Dover to Londonderry. Their fascias used to bear slogans such as “EVERYTHING’S £1” or “yes! everything’s £1”. But now they declare “...AMAZING VALUE EVERYDAY”. 

What is really amazing is the slogan’s sloppy use of the word “everyday”. Look it up in any dictionary and you will find that it is an adjective meaning ordinary or commonplace or normal or usual or routine or typical or mundane or unremarkable or workaday. 

So Poundland seems to be offering amazingly unremarkable value. What the company means is presumably “amazing value every day”.