Kacia sent this one. I know it’s wrong, of course, but: I’ve *had* new olives, and they’re gross. You want an olive that’s aged a little and has spent some time in some brine. So perhaps the author here was just acknowledging the fact that olives newly-arrived to a store for sale are, in fact, months old?
Jake found this one, and definitely didn’t record it with a camera or a recording device. (Bonus: nice glitter polish!)
Kacia ponders,
I honestly have no idea what purpose these quotes are supposed to serve. If they were there for emphasis (as incorrect as that is), they should be around the word ‘no’. Is pseudo-trash the disallowed commodity? Who knows!
Maybe the author is a hard-core environmentalist who believes that most of the material we consider refuse could actually be repurposed or otherwise have value, but acknowledges that it cannot, in fact, be recycled by this community’s recycling facilities?
Reporter #1 loves her Wegmans. She says:
Wegmans is #1! Wegmans is #1! Except maybe not? Make your headlines match your graphics, NBC! (If you watch the clip/pay attention to the list, TJ’s is the only truly national chain on the list, which I suspect is why they got the headline, but, dammit, WEGMANS IS #1!)
<takes step away from Reporter #1>
Actually, I suspect that NBC would probably stand by this one, in that “tops” is one of those useful headline-verbs that doesn’t have to mean “the very tippy-top.” It’s imprecise, of course, but if they’d said “Wegmans and Trader Joe’s top the list,” that would be correct, and expands the definition of “top” somewhat.
That said: Wegmans needs to send Reporter #1 a cookie or something.
Jake says,
I guess a company with such a liberal application of the letter “x” has to be given some leeway.
But Jake is wrong. Some errors you just can’t forgive. Or unsee. You’re on my list, T.J. Maxx.
I *hope* this is a typo, and not somebody thinking it’s correct. “R” is right next to “t” on our QWERTY keyboards, after all. But… it could really go either way.
Thanks to GrammarTroika Sister #3 and her intrepid photographer, GTS#4!
…even if they’d correctly used an apostrophe! Just because it’s awesome! Thanks, Lisa R.
Where to start? The spelling? The punctuation? The bizarre nationalism?
Thanks, GrammarTroika Sister #2!
This is one of the ones with which I wouldn’t be able to help myself. The door would be propped open. I’d leave an apologetic, explanatory note, of course. Thanks, Kacia!
You ever wish you had a specific dish? Like, you never before really needed an 8×8 Pyrex, but now you kind of do? Michael Z. has the perfect tool for you: a dishwisher!
Whether it actually CLEANS those dishes is anybody’s guess.