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Illiterate Britain

I'm chuffed to find that MSN and their friends have done the hard work and gathered together a bunch of examples of irritating language gaffs.

As another case of bad grammar on a road sign makes the headlines, MSN presents a

gallery

of the very worst examples of publicly-aired lazy punctuation and lousy spelling.

The one that bugs me - and it's not in the list - is the sign over some checkout tills at the supermarket that reads:-

10 items or less



ADDENDUM
The MSN page is no longer available so here is the next best thing that I can offer - a screen shot:-



And here is a link to the cached page:-

Illiterate Britian - cached
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