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Thor

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Website Literacy Standards
« on: 30 April, 2008, 01:51:54 pm »
I am in search of car tyres and the websites of small local traders in this line of business are a rich source of aberrant apostrophes, dodgy grammar and spelling.

This one may take the biscuit...

Puncher Repair From £7.00  ::-)
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Website Literacy Standards
« Reply #1 on: 30 April, 2008, 01:53:40 pm »
That's otherwise known as a "second", isn't it?
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David Martin

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Re: Website Literacy Standards
« Reply #2 on: 30 April, 2008, 03:26:05 pm »
Quote from: Thor on 30 April, 2008, 01:51:54 pm
I am in search of car tyres and the websites of small local traders in this line of business are a rich source of aberrant apostrophes, dodgy grammar and spelling.

This one may take the biscuit...

Puncher Repair From £7.00  ::-)

Tyres from a Porsche Boxer perchance?

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Pingu

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Re: Website Literacy Standards
« Reply #3 on: 30 April, 2008, 04:17:14 pm »
Fiat is just one key away from Fist.
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Ian H

Re: Website Literacy Standards
« Reply #4 on: 30 April, 2008, 04:47:03 pm »
Not on a website, but our club newsletter once, embarrassingly, referred to some roadies who were rather full of themselves as "pre-madonnas".

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CathH

Re: Website Literacy Standards
« Reply #5 on: 01 May, 2008, 12:59:48 pm »
A little OT, but I had a message through not long ago that referred to a suspect creating a problem in the "Custardy Suite".....  ::-)
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Greenbank

Re: Website Literacy Standards
« Reply #6 on: 01 May, 2008, 01:40:16 pm »
Quote from: Cath H on 01 May, 2008, 12:59:48 pm
A little OT, but I had a message through not long ago that referred to a suspect creating a problem in the "Custardy Suite".....  ::-)

Takes allsorts I suppose.
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Salvatore

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Re: Website Literacy Standards
« Reply #7 on: 01 May, 2008, 06:05:41 pm »
I had an email from a colleague this week with the sentence:

"Just my I dear for starters."
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