Annoyingly misspelled local places: a thread for Donna Ferentes

[IntoStella]

Bussing up to Streatham yesterday (don't ask why), I noticed something else incredibly annoying about the notorious yuppie-nest known as Alexander Dumas House.

The Gallic man of letters was, as any fule kno, Alexandre Dumas.

Reason enough to storm their iron mask, sorry, gates and nick their I-pods, I reckon. All for one and one for all!

 

[Orang Utan]

Hmm, I can't get too annoyed by that - there's nothing wrong with a soupcon of Anglicisation from time to time. Should we also always be referring to Munchen and Braunschweig?

 

[Loki]

Surely "Alexander" is an acceptable anglicisation? (fully expects Donna to come along and demolish me once more).

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Medussa instead of Medusa, and Pedro Keys (thankfully gone) should have been Pedro Cays. http://nature.org/wherewework/caribbean/jamaica/work/art14722.html

 

[gaijingirl]

Formerly known as Mr Cheap Potatoe's - the splendidly renamed Gardners Delight on Acre Lane....

 

[Orang Utan]

So, should it be Cay Largo?

 

[tarannau]

Not really mis-spelled or particularly local, but I would love to take aside the signwriter who created the the legend for 'Ten Thank's' takeaway in Streatham Vale.

Fucking incompetent and illiterate signwriters eh. You think their career advisor at school would have had a word eh...

 

[IntoStella]

Medussa instead of Medusa,

Oh yeah, that drives me nuts too.

 

[tarannau]

And a special prize for Kennedy fried chicken on Brixton Hill who, a few years ago at least, managed to spell 'Kennedy' a remarkable 4 different ways in the shop alone. That's some achievement.

 

[IntoStella]

Hmm, I can't get too annoyed by that - there's nothing wrong with a soupcon of Anglicisation from time to time. Should we also always be referring to Munchen and Braunschweig?

But you woudn't refer to Bridget Bardot, or Freddie Nietzsche. Charles Marx, anyone? Frank Kafka? Hank Ibsen? John Bach? No.

If they can get the names of resistance heroes right on West Norwood's Vincennes Estate (and who wouldn't want to live in a place called Violette Szabo House?) then there's really no excuse.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Ooh I can't remember the misspelt dish in the caff in Camberwell on the corner of Kenbury St. and Coldharbout Lane...it was so wonderfully eccentric I wrote it down somewhere as it took me some time to work out what it was....

 

[Orang Utan]

But you woudn't refer to Bridget Bardot

 

[clandestino]

Formerly known as Mr Cheap Potatoe's - the splendidly renamed Gardners Delight on Acre Lane....

hurrah for mr cheap potatoe's - i was going to mention that.

 

[Maidmarian]

hurrah for mr cheap potatoe's - i was going to mention that.

Errrrr ----- shouldn`t that be "POTATO" (without the "E")

 

[hiccup]

Not exactly a place, but I saw this coffee shop yesterday. I can see three grammatical errors. Any advance on three?

 

[Orang Utan]

Not exactly a place, but I saw this coffee shop yesterday. I can see three grammatical errors. Any advance on three?

I can see only one

 

[Orang Utan]

This one is pretty bad:
REMEMBER NO SPITTING!!!!!

IN THE FOUNTAIN, THANK’S!!!!!

 

[gaijingirl]

Errrrr ----- shouldn`t that be "POTATO" (without the "E")

Precisely... it was and still is an annoyingly misspelled local place... it shouldn't have an apostrophe either!!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

@hiccup

Should be Belgian waffles; ice-cream; and sandwiches and panninis. Yes?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

or have I just misspelt panninis?

 

[gaijingirl]

pannini is already plural.. the singular is pannino

 

[laptop]

Not exactly a place, but I saw this coffee shop yesterday. I can see three grammatical errors. Any advance on three?

Are you counting the misseparation of the phone number?

 

[Orang Utan]

Should be Belgian waffles; ice-cream; and sandwiches and panninis. Yes?

Only if you intend a bunch of signs on your shop to be read as a complete sentence. If that is the case, most shop signs and windows have grammatical errors.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

No! it's not about the semi colons! Sorry..they've put Belgium instead of Belgian, ice cream without a hyphen and a greengrocer's apostrophe in panninis.

 

[Ms T]

In Brixton rec, the signs on the running machines say:

AT PEEK TIMES.....

It annoys me every time I'm in there.

 

[laptop]

Should we also always be referring to Munchen and Braunschweig?

München (oder wenigstens Muenchen) b i t t e...

Found a wonderful one in Le Monde just now - your starter for 10 is: ou est Cantorbéry?

 

[Orang Utan]

No! it's not about the semi colons! Sorry..they've put Belgium instead of Belgian, ice cream without a hyphen and a greengrocer's apostrophe in panninis.

But hiccup mentioned grammatical errors, not spelling errors.
Here's a good one:

 

[belboid]

Ooh I can't remember the misspelt dish in the caff in Camberwell on the corner of Kenbury St. and Coldharbout Lane...it was so wonderfully eccentric I wrote it down somewhere as it took me some time to work out what it was....

our local Somerfield always spelt humous humerus.

It amused me.

 

[Orang Utan]

I wonder if the braille is wrong too - never understood why they have braille on signs like that. They have a braille sign outside Horseferry Road Court, but how do you find it in the first place?

 

[Orang Utan]

München (oder wenigstens Muenchen) b i t t e...

Found a wonderful one in Le Monde just now - your starter for 10 is: ou est Cantorbéry?

I know but I can't find the umlaut on my keyboard - I can only find é!