Whilst out and about on my daily travels I see a load of crap grammar. Shocking? It was to me too, when I first arrived in England in 1995. I naïvely thought all those entrancing English accents meant the speakers were somewhat well educated. Ha!A fab example of this is our local "magazine", a publication pushed through our front door each month. It's titled My Abbots, and each month's issue contains misspellings, apostrophe crimes, and biased human interest stories offered up as news. On the homepage alone, you've got a missed apostrophe in the two "In This Months Edition" sections. Also on this homepage you've got local adverts, including one for Robins Rubbish...
The April issue of this periodical offers some more evidence of no proofreading whatsoever. On page 16, we see "Mother ran motorist of road in fit of rage". On page 22, we get to read about a "short listed" consultant. Page 34 offers "Aprils' top tips" for the garden. Page 94 give us an apostrophe for no reason at all; there's not even an S to trick you. And on page 57, I can't figure out what "Memorial match to in aid of Dan" means. Need I go on?
I like to think that "Aprils' top tips" features 2 people named April arguing over what to do about the garden.
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