Wordsplosion!

Half a cent? Seems steep.

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• “.50¢” should either be “$0.50″ or “50¢”
• “and any order at less in $3.00″ should probably say “on any order less than $3.00″
• “all Debit or Credit Cards” could have been “for all Debit and Credit Cards”
• There is inconsistent capitalization throughout the sign

Obama: now with 50% less cotton.

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• The sentence lacks a verb
• The d in “BREEd” and the i in “MUSLiN” should be capitalized
• “MUSLiN” should say “MUSLIM”
• Barack Obama isn’t a Muslim

Silly Kroger. They misspelled “Two.”

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• “are valued customers” should say “our valued customers”
• “cell phone” should be “cell phones”
• “coperation” should be “cooperation”
• “prohibted” should be “prohibited”

I’ve been told that I should be less judgmental about bad grammar. “Don’t you mean I should be fewer judgmental?” I reply.

This sign is in Wal-Mart, by the way. Wal-Mart was where we had the idea of launching Wordsplosion!

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• “Less” should be “Fewer” (because items are distinct units)

Where the people are fancier than the condos.

Enjoy your Wordsplosion palate cleansing chaser of the week. It seems they got wise.

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• The sign should say “Luxury Residences”

Spelling mistake, or deep statement about the intrusiveness of telecommuting?

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• The word “CLOTHES” should be “CLOSED”

The grawlix above the camera icon captures my reaction to this well. There’s simply no abcuse.

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• The word “ABCUSE” should be “ABUSE”

I love how in certain circumstances, “accept” and “except” have opposite meanings. Alas, their lack of belief in the fabled year of “2007″ leads me to think that they intend to commence anti-check discrimination rather than end it.

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• “2007″ should not be in quotes
• “except” should be “accept”
• “inconvience” should be “inconvenience”

I like to imagine that they had to add the second sheet of paper after someone tried to barter using a goat.  Of course their solution to that would probably be to add “NO Goats” to the end.

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• “Credit Cars” should be “Credit Cards”
• The sentence lacks punctuation, and is awkwardly phrased
• Better: “Sorry, our credit card machine is broken. Cash only.”

Think they can still valuedate my parking?

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• “STORE WIDE” should be “STOREWIDE”
• “VALID CUSTOMER” should be “VALUED CUSTOMER”
• There should probably be a comma after “MEETING”
• “UNITL” should be “UNTIL”