Showing posts with label Chapters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapters. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Keep the gates's closed

At Chapters Coquitlam in June, there was a display of many copies of Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo. Next to the display was a Gates Picks notice - A Book Review by Bill Gates. The final paragraph of the notice is seen above, in which Bill's last name is changed to Gate based on the apostrophe's location. Then, it should be Mr. Gates's Facebook page (note the apostrophe-S and the noncapitalized page), and author shouldn't be capitalized. As well, I think a comma before and a comma after the website would be better than having the colon. It's a crap sentence unbecoming a bookstore, but in my view this post doesn't outdo this post. Click the image to enlarge it.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Saturday, July 9, 2011

You are name, eh?

Chapters Coquitlam held a Canada Day party on July 1, 2011. Part of the festivities included submitting a name for a large stuffed giraffe and a name for a large stuffed lion. The form above has only five words, but two of the five are misspelled. You're should be your, and what the heck is a laion? As you can see,

other forms had lion spelled correctly, but the you're/your error was present on all of them.

Monday, April 11, 2011

An exciting? Yes. An fun? No.

The word fun doesn't start with a vowel or a vowel sound. Perhaps it was originally an exciting night but exciting got changed to fun and no one noticed the resulting error. This is from a Chapters Metrotown flyer in April 2011.

Does that name ring a bell?

This is from the top of an in-store advertisement. Firstly, the author's name is Annabel Lyon. Secondly, the city's name is Coquitlam.