IKEA opens daily
I’ve posted about errors in signs declaring business hours before. A giant European home furnishings company you may have heard of is among the businesses that have gotten it wrong. Why should the phrase...
Tagged: signs
Please tear sideway
Georgia-Pacific is a paper company headquartered in my hometown, Atlanta, Georgia. The Georgia-Pacific Tower, a pink granite building shaped like three tiers of steps, came into being about the same time I did. It’s...
Release level to stop
Since the picture is too far away and blurry, you’ll have to take my word for it that these are the steps for using this Downtown Line fire extinguisher: [pull out the pin, presumably]...
No Admin Fee and GST
This is a sticker on the inside of the window in a taxi. It says: NO ADMIN FEE & GST when you pay with Dash! Even assuming you like the ampersand in this font...
Wear and use your personal protective equipments
Pluralized uncountable nouns are a pet peeve of mine. The one that’s most frequently publicly wrong is ‘equipments’ because it’s posted at every construction site, and there are a lot of construction sites. equipments...
Main Wait
Nice new 12-story building? Check. Nifty quasi-anatomical logo? Check. Building signs checked by English expert? Nope. The signs in this waiting area at the National Heart Centre Singapore say “Main Wait” when they should...
Transitive and phrasal verbs and taxis
The word ‘alight’ didn’t used to really be part of my vocabulary, probably because in the US we had a car and we drove ourselves everywhere we couldn’t walk or fly. In Singapore we...
Mind your steps!
Broken idiom alert. This sign at the National Skin Centre pharmacy says: CAUTION! Tripping Hazard. Mind Your Steps! I think in the US we’d be more likely to say “watch your step” rather than...
No Smoking Prohibited By Law
The sign says: No Smoking Prohibited By Law But it should say: No Smoking By Law or Smoking Prohibited By Law or No Smoking Smoking Is Prohibited By Law Why? Because it almost sounds...
