Houston is a big city with big and small businesses alike.
And, so it seems, there is also equal-opportunity for those who can’t spell. Or punctuate.
Or both.
In one week – ONE WEEK — I snatched the following photos while driving to and from the groomers … the Little Lady’s school … and Target.
Such a small radius with big, big errors.
(my former English-teacher’s heart can’t help but … sigh)
Sighting #1:
Those darn homonymns! Shake your fist and eyebrowse at the sky!!!!!
Sighting #2:
The Letter “I.” So versatile you can replace an “E” with it any. time. you. want. Except – oh, yeah. You can’t.
p.s. This Sonic? I noticed last week that they had another interesting spelling displayed on their marquee: “midnighth“. Perhaps — just to give the sign-person the benefit of the doubt — someone is hoping to bring back Ye Olde English. At least, that’s my hope.
Sighting #3:
The wanton apostrophe strikes again …. at an EDUCATIONAL center. For anyone confused by this one … an apostrophe doesn’t equal “plural.” Think on that for awhile.
Sigh. The first and last examples kill me the most … they are PERMANENT SIGNAGE. Permanent… made by someone OTHER than the business owner. Seriously? No one caught the mistakes? No one thought to call up the owner and say, “Hey, just thought you might want to change this misspelling … get rid of this incorrectly used apostrophe.”?
No — money exchanged hands. Signs were made. Grammar and Spelling were shamelessly ignored.
And all of these businesses lost a potential customer. . . because I don’t have eyebrowse, am not sure how premium “primium burritos” really are, and no way in you-know-where am I sending my child to a place of learning where a basic understanding of grammar is lacking.
Thank you and good day.
p.s. Yes, I know that I have sprinkled run-ons, fragments, ellipses, and dashes everywhere. It’s for effect, rhythm, emphasis and voice, people, so it’s all good. Promise. 
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Yes, I feel your pain. I see typos everywhere I go and it always makes me crazy! I also think the title Kids for Me (typo or not) is enough to make you question whether to send your children there…strange name.
YES — I commented about that issue when I originally posted the picture to Facebook. Very creepy name for an early-childhood learning center.
Did you shoot all these pics on the way to school? Maybe these places aren’t near enough to the educational center:)
Did you ever see the ones with Target saying “Discovery Green: It Get’s Funner” over the summer?
@KismetSorena
A local surgeon had a large billboard displaying his gallbladder “surgury” skills.
Whoops!
I think I’ll find someone else.
That sign was fixed rather quickly!
Funny signage! There are a lot of those around the world. The worst that I encountered was “Sucks, for Sale” can you just imagine that? What was your worst encounter?
Thanks for sharing these pictures. I had fun.
-Kattie
Oh…. I soooo agree on the apostrophe! Growl! Drives me bananas! I worked at a newspaper as a creative director (worked my way up from proofreader) for 10 years so this has always been a huge pet peeve of mine. I see apostrophes in the wrong position (or where they shouldn’t be at all) all of the time. Every day! Car dealers are the worse it seems.
I told my hubby I seriously want to keep a big red marker in my car so I can go put an editing mark over the apostrophes I see.
Those are hilarious. We saw one last week on the O’Charleys sign .. my husband actually turned around to get a closer look because the sign at a distance looked like it said “Apple Titties” … but when you got close it was “appetite” all spaced out funky.
Catherine Davis´s last [type] ..the haircut.
I think we can forgive sighting number three, provided that it is a brand name properly registered. It could be their way of standing out. Too bad they forgot they’re supposed to educated young minds.
The first two are definitely unforgivable.