31 March, 2012

 

Etaoin Shrdlu despairs

Ross draws our attention to an innovative piece of tomfoolery from Essex Constabulary, as reported by a Daily Mail hack with a similarly innovative approach to English grammar and spelling.


Repeat after me, "Greggs are rolling out a new role in outlets across their retail estate as specialist sausage roll sales associate."

And do make your mind up whether you want to use singular or plural:
Essex Police has vowed ... as it rolls it out ...
or
Essex Police have vowed ... as they roll it out ...
But not the semi-literate drivel wot u wrote, Sunshine.


Exits stage left pursued by mob crying, "Filthy pedant! Hanging's too good for the likes of him!"

Innit.

Comments:
Pedantry on this, and other grammar topics should be mandatory.

 
Probably punctuation, too, since I edited my post and forgot to adjust the commas.....

 
Interesting. Blogger decided that your comment of 09:26 was spam.

Perhaps it was all those extra full stops at the end of the sentence. The approved number of dots in an ellipsis is three. There's nothing else I can think of.

Hmm. Maybe the Blogger spam engine is a pedant too. There's hope for us yet!

 
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