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I have just seen an email sent by someone I work with, to quite an important person - apologising for the 'up evil' that xxx may have caused

:eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
Recently at work someone kept saying "power of eternity" instead of "power of attorney". Good god I had to bite my lip!
 
"To all intensive purposes" is a favourite used by someone I know, haven't the heart to correct him...

Also, witnesses were "sort" instead of "sought" ....and that was in a newspaper! :p
 
I would have expected better from the Sunday Times - pretty sure I saw mine in the classy publication that is the Metro :o

They frequently have howlers.... most memorably when they had to issue a correction for referring to the Australian Prime Minister in the previous day's issue as Paul Rudd :eek: Would explain why his last few films haven't been that great, he has been running Australia! :eek:
 
numptynoelle said:
I would have expected better from the Sunday Times - pretty sure I saw mine in the classy publication that is the Metro :o
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Oh the Metro has always been bad!

My little brother was given an Olympic fact file book for his birthday - it's full of glaring spelling and grammar errors - and is official merchandise :eek: :rolleyes:

The word 'Individial' appears a few times...
 
I had to go on a training course once and was informed that Dog poo contain orgasms!!!!!! I almost choked!!!!
 
Another email sent by someone whose first language was not English apologised in advance for any incontinence when requesting some information from a client!
 
I know someone who tells her friends she is 'keeping up the fackade' Wondered whet the hell she meant first time she said it lol.
 
I heard someone on the television describe himself as 'the light and soul' of the party yesterday, several times. I thought I'd mis-heard the first time!

And a colleague was talking about 'plasating' someone - it took me a while to work out what she was talking about.
 
I had a dear old friend who had problem with pronounciation and spelling(they are linked,of course.) She painted her bathroom with emotion paint.....(I want some!) and she also heated her hot water with an emotion heater......(deffo need one of these)
She was also a keen gardener and gave me some cerise petunias which she had raised from seed. They were carefully labelled. Petunia. Colour-Sir Reece.
 
hehe some of these are priceless,
i used to work with an older woman years ago who would talk about how the 'humility' played havoc with her hair, she also used to say 'tihara' instead of tiara, used to make me chuckle.
i have to think very carefully before i say specific, as it will come out as pacific or spefific!! just one of those words i have trouble with:o
 
An elderly lady I used to care for once told me a story about her equally elderly sister and the niagra her boyfriend had to take......
 
Whilst we're mixing our metaphors, one of my Uni lecturers used to get confused between 'don't beat yourself up' and 'don't beat around the bush'. Ended up being something like 'don't beat yourself around the bush' :eek: :o :D She said it a couple of times in one lecture, I very nearly wet myself laughing :D :D
 
an email at work last week said everyone had been assigned rolls for an event, and that if we were happy with the rolls assigned to us to let them know....

I emailed back saying I didnt like ham and tomato! ;)
 
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