Posts Tagged ‘spelling’

Panini at Roundhay Park Cafe

Friday, August 31st, 2018 | Life

Here is the latest update in my series on people pluralising the already-pluralised word panini. This one from Roundhay Park cafe. No wonder Facebook stopped syndicating my blog posts.

Panini at Leeds Beckett

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 | Photos

Today we continue my series on people who cannot spell panini.

This shop I found in May, for example. They have at least worked out that there should not be an apostrophe there.

Leeds Beckett has not, however.

Even if the word panini was the singular form, why would you add an apostrophe there?

Panini in Pateley Bridge

Saturday, May 27th, 2017 | Photos

This is not how you spell panini. Panini itself is plural. It’s an Italian word. The singular is panino. Therefore, there is no need to put an s on the end.

Worst still, though, is that if you zoom in, you can see someone has rubbed something out before the s. An apostrophe, no doubt.

Grammarly weekly report

Monday, December 5th, 2016 | Tech

grammarly

I have started using the free version of Grammarly to double-check my spelling and grammar. I have the standard spell checker on of course, but Grammary catches some mistakes that the spell checker does not. Here is my invite link if you want to give it ago.

More interesting, is that Grammarly send you a weekly report with some stats in it. I have just received the first one, and it contains some interesting stuff.

  • I wrote 2082 words, putting me in the 87th percentile
  • I made 16 mistakes, putting me in the 91st percentile
  • I used 464 unique words, putting me in the 85th percentile

Whether Grammarly has found some statistical trick to massage my ego, or just has a dubious user base I am not sure. It seems like the kind of tool writers would use, which suggests the former. Still, statistically I seem to be doing okay.

It is also worth noting that I am only using the browser plug-in, so it does not monitor the writing I am doing in desktop applications.

Grammar at the LGI

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016 | Photos

Back in April, I wrote about the LGI’s dubious spelling of ultrasound. We’ve been there quite a bit recently: volunteering with Anxiety Leeds, having baby scans and visiting my grandma. Each time we go, we seem to notice another sign that is not quite correct.

gynaecology

A bold new spelling of gynaecology.

thank-you-door-sign

Capitalising each word seems to be an interesting stylistic choice, but why is “thank you” hyphenated? It is bizarre.

stairs-to-all-floors

Why would you capitalise “floors”?

this-hospital

Why would you capitalise “hospital”?

lgi-areas

Areas “are” safe and secure?

Ultrsound

Monday, April 18th, 2016 | Photos

ultrsound

Nothing fills you with confidence look a good “ultrsound”.

Deserts

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012 | Photos

Last week, we went to The New Conservatory for lunch. Apparently, they serve deserts, and even have a special “desert of the day.”