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ERROR TERROR

Our mini-series on funny signs from English-speaking countries.

If you’ve ever been abroad, you’ve probably seen a poorly-written menu full of spelling errors. But it isn’t just foreigners who make mistakes: native English speakers are just as bad. The following is a collection of badly written signs from shop windows and public places in English-speaking countries. See if you can identify the linguistic problem in each sentence. Then check our “Error Analysis” section for a full explanation.

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