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That's a hyphen-free Virgin Radio ad on the front cover of today's 24H Vancouver, but it shouldn't be.

Two more missing hyphens on the inside of the front cover. Virgin seems to have difficulties coming up with error-free ads for use in 24H Vancouver; two previous postings can be seen here and here. The latter posting is a personal favorite.

$10,0000

-- Virgin Radio advertisement in Vancouver 24 hours on November 9, 2009

Do you remember Virgin's ad on the front page of Vancouver 24 hours that misspelled surveillance? I didn't think they could outdo themselves, but they've come close. This time no errors were detected on the front-page ad, but the $10,000 they announce as a prize amount on the front page turns into $10,0000 on the very next page. I wonder what Virgin has in store for us with its next front-page ad.

YOU ARE UNDER SURVEILANCE

For the past week or so, I kept seeing notices in Vancouver 24 hours that a new look to their newspaper was being developed and would be introduced September 8. Today is September 8 and the new look is here. The front cover of the first new-design edition is the full-page ad seen above. Well, the ad is actually two pages; it continues error-free on the subsequent page.

As you can see, the ad features an error that is more glaring than all those pesky paid advertisments combined. One would think that there'd be somebody - somebody - at either Virgin Radio or Vancouver 24 hours who knows that there is no such word as surveilance. If somebody gave that L a twin, which is required to spell surveillance correctly, then the newspaper and the radio station wouldn't look so silly. As it is, SURVEILANCE in a very large font size on the front page looks absolutely ridiculous.