Thursday, 14 February 2008

Grammar Terrorism in action at your local supermarket

This sign, word for word and space for space, was hanging in the fruit and veg section at a supermarket this morning.


Dear Customers:
We would like to inform you that there is an apple shortage so inturn the price of all apples and pears have sky rocked up. There is about a 4 week gap un till any new seasons apples come in. And importing apples from over east is prohibited cause of quarantine laws.
Regards,
IGA Hamilton Hill Management

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Obviously english is not a high criteria for IGA management.

Dave said...

I didn't want to say it, but we were all thinking it...

shiny said...

Those fuckers.

Jessica said...

Dang. That's messed up.

Dave said...

By "over east" I wonder if they meant New Zealand. We are still battling to get access to Australia with our apples. - Dave