High profile foal auction with spelling mistake...!

Wow guys - went off to work thinking I would come home and find myself having been roasted for being so picky and you all agree with me!!

Superhot - not sure I want to email really, the foal(s) are currently very high profile (think Australian...) and I wouldn't want to rock the boat as such.
 
SarahThomas said:
No, you MUST. I implore you to correct her, for her sake.

Our local pub was bought by the last owners in a state of disrepair. We attended a hunt meet there after it had been renovated and in the entrance there was a photo of them stood in front of the derelict building, with the caption 'Garth Mill when we brought it in 2004'. I went to the bar and proceeded to ask them 'so where did you bring this place from?'...it went straight over the top of their heads :confused:
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Um, strictly speaking they should have been 'standing in front of the derelict building' not 'stood in front of the derelict building' :D
 
It's good to know that there are like-minded people out there. I can't help myself - I'm constantly reading articles, menus, adverts .... anything .... in the knowledge that I'll probably find something to criticise and/or correct. It has also rubbed off on my daughter. We'll often text each other with examples, which is sad, I know! :)
 
My horse (handy), went to the vets one day for a lameness work up. Got there, unloaded etc and vet came out and said "So this is Candy??" I corrected her saying "no, this is handy", and on their paperwork they had him down as a mare! He's most definately a boy. Another one of the liveries had him down as Mandy too! That was soon corrected!
 
Decimated is one of my pet hates. It means reduced by a tenth not almost completely obliterated. Then don't get me started on 'chronic' and 'acute'. A horse can be chronically lame but it doesn't necessarily mean it is very badly lame just that it has been lame a good while. The opposite of accutely lame then ;-)
 
Slightly Foxed said:
Um, strictly speaking they should have been 'standing in front of the derelict building' not 'stood in front of the derelict building' :D
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I apologise profusely - I was under the misguided belief that I had not picked up any dialectical words in my lifetime, but here I am using 'stood' instead of 'standing'. Argh now I feel unclean :( but I won't be making the same mistake twice! So thank you :)
 
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