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Companies that use bad syntax or grammar in their print
advertising and in other printed materials (books, magazines, etc.).




This is the back of a catalogue I regularly receive.
Shouldn't that read "...when you shop FOR items priced..."?





This is the front of Reader's Digest magazine from January 2007.
Shouldn't that read "New Breakthroughs IN Weight Loss"?





This is a flap from a U-Haul box.
Shouldn't that read "Do not put IT in THE trash"?

Or, for greater variety, it could also read any of the following:

"Do not put it in the garbage"
"Do not put it in the rubbish"
"Do not put it in the garbage can"
"Do not put it in the dustbin"
"Do not put it in the wheelie bin"





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READY.


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