Actually, I just love that spellcheck didn’t catch this one. Nice job, WaPo.

My friend Casey’s mom found this at a flea market! I will admit that I sat here for a second trying to figure out what in the picture was from or related to Oregon. Then I had a *facepalm* moment.

Kacia says: <badfrenchaccent> En garde! Charcoal, I challenge you to a duel! I will burn you with my gaseous flames! </badfrenchaccent> I dunno, I’d rather play with laser cats. Also, hi, world! Welcome back! To me, I mean.

Happening now over here at this link! Good job, HLN. You don’t need the comma before “Prince George,” and if we want to be really pedantic, the Archbishop didn’t sprinkle water on the infant but rather onto him. And that’s aside from the very, very obvious.

When I opened Kacia’s email the picture opened in a slightly-larger-than-thumbnail version and I could only see “Gyro Bar.” That made me hungry. Then I zoomed in. Now I’m not hungry any more. (Okay… that’s a total lie. I’d eat some tzaziki with a spoon. But my point stands.)

Your thought for today: sometimes it’s possible to spell a word totally correctly and still be very, very wrong. Hanna B. shows us how. Apparently this is a very common error, but it cracks me up. Maybe I notice it because as a mathematician I actually use “complement” as in “thing that completes” fairly frequently? …read more.

Colleen found this at the Dollar Tree, and admits she shouldn’t really be surprised. Okay, I’m confused. What the? Yeah, yeah, I see the typo, but what is this? Is it a sign sold to children with siblings named Bill? Does it go on your mailbox and address anthropomorphized letters? What will this artifact tell …read more.

FINALLY, an RPB contributor who gets what’s actually required of the RPB lifestyle. From Shannon M.: The Baltimore Grand Prix had lots of display booths for companies that make fast cars. Chevrolet had a Corvette exhibit, featuring a ZR-1. Sadly, it had this sign on it, so they won’t be getting my $100,000. It’d go …read more.

Rayanne caught this beautiful homophone mishap and sent it to me with a subject line saying “If you don’t like the music your dog is playing, just retract?” Close reading will also reveal that “the retractable chord [sic] with let it run,” so obviously there wasn’t stellar editing going on here. I don’t know about …read more.

GrammarTroika sister #2, Shannon, saw this on her Facebook feed and sent it in with the cheerful comment “Hey, if YOU’RE happy together, F- the English language!” I’m with you, Shannon, you know I am. But I’m pretty sure you’re not going to get super-positive feedback from your friend, you know? Also, yes, “GrammarTroika” is …read more.