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It's back- the Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public, thanks to our friend @humphreyjones, who spotted this interesting spelling near a restaurant in Gorey during the holidays. Where do we start with this one? Perhaps best just to let it sepeak for itself.

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Number 23 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.

Spotted on a half-term Aer Lingus flight. Presumably it's 'off' after 25th October. But also - yikes - the hideous 'word' ovenable: who thought of this abomination? Positively abominable.

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Number 22 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.


Our colleague PMcC spotted this in yesterday's Sunday Tribune. If only employers were also monitering their own spelling...

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Number 21 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.

It's been a while since we had anything from the press, but here is one via an anonymous source, as they say in the business, from last Friday's Evening Herald. The article is : 'How the drug zombies have swamped even Grafton Street' (brilliant - drugs! zombies! swamping!).

Half-way down there's a curious image (click on the picture above for a closer look):- As I walked up Grafton Street, a strung-out young man lunged at me with his cup and asked for change. For me, they were junkies, no big deal. I play a daily game of dodge the drug addict on Talbot Street. But I'm sure for the more gentile elements of society, and especially our much needed tourists, this is a shock.

Odd to get a Jewish angle on swamping drug zombies.

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Number 20 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.

Despite saying we might lay the apostrophe issue down for a while, we just had to feature this multiple horror seen yesterday in Dundrum Shopping Centre. Yes, its true, its there over and over, and Bing! walk around the back and there its happening again, this time white on black. It hasn't arrived....

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Number 19 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.

This one is a tinchy bit embarrassing for our profession. In last June's Leaving Certificate Paper II (Higher Level) the Unseen Poem was 'Seed' by Paula Meehan. On Friday we saw the Marking Scheme for the first time, and the words in the picture, above, which read 'There is a typographic error on line 12. The word "useless" should read "useful".'  The examiners are then advised to reward creative reading of the poem. Oops.

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Number 18 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.

Over the porridge at the breakfast table the other morning, KS spotted this apostrophic omission - Padraigs 1st cow is presumably well past heavens door by now.

Unless we get a particularly juicy one, this might be the last CREEP referring to an absent apostrophe (shooting punctuation fish in a barrel). But we thought you'd like, below, the fine 'Apostrophe Song' first:-

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Number 17 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.

Some unaurthorised spelling in a carpark in Smithfield, Dublin!!

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Number 16 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public.

Many thanks to a Twitter friend, Des Fitzgerald (do follow him: @desfitzgerald) who sent in this picture from Blackrock Shopping Centre. Des's sharp eye spotted that the Centre's Sunday opening hours seem to be very liberal. Many, many more hours than you'd expect...We sympathise with the shoppers of South Dublin as they press their noses to the windows of this upmarket venue at 3am on a Sunday and wonder why it isn't open.

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Number 15 in the series: Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public. Previous examples have featured the famous intrusive apostrophe, but here's a familiar variation - that shy creature, the vanishing apostrophe, seen (or rather not seen) in Glendalough by our roving photographer, Professor H. Frog. Please do send us pics of interest...

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Continuing our series in the Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public, number 14 features a rare bird indeed, seen in Dublin: the letter 's' appears three times in a row, and in creeps (ha!) that nervous little apostrophe, nipping in just in case an 'e' gets there first.

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It's unlucky 13 for Wicklow Town, in our series put together as the Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public. Thanks to Mr H. Frog for this image, seen on Station Road in the town. They speak funny down in the country.

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Many thanks to Adrian Weckler of the Sunday Business Post (Twitter: @adrianweckler) for giving us permission to use the photo as part of the Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public (inspired by the similarly-acronymed Nixon committee). He saw this in TCD, and his comment is below:-

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One of our field reporters, Fraser, spotted this recently. An interesting variation, the Delayed Apostophe Whammy: just when you think "Phew, at least they've avoided the intrusive apostrophe after HGV..."

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The Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public was looking on Amazon.co.uk for an edition of one of next year's texts, To Kill a Mockingbird. This is the 50th anniversary of the modern classic, and famously Harper Lee has written nothing since. Perhaps this accounts for Amazon's forgetfulness about Ms Lee's gender (click on the image)?

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Strolling through the unIrish sunshine in Kilkenny yesterday, we came across another matter of concern (pictured) for the Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public. Our main concern here is not so much the all-too-familiar intrusive apostrophe in the first word, as the way that in the second, erroneous English punctuation has invaded a foreign language. In Italian, a grilled sandwich is a panino, plural panini, but now we apparently have something like, er, panini'ni. Coming shortly, a new series of posts called CREPI (Campaign for the Removal of Errors in Punctuation in Italian).

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The Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public has been eating out recently. Above, a County Wicklow eatery caters for that familiar religious rite - making sure that youngsters conform to the rules, and celebrate their induction thereto. Below, l'apostrophe intrusive from a distinctly fancier establishment in the centre of Dublin (to be fair, the food is excellent, whatever about the punctuation). Zut alors! (thanks to our CREEP representative in the field, Philip Russell, for the first photo).

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The Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public returns to the fray. Seen last night on Parnell Street, Dublin. At least poker's weren't being brandished.

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The Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public was driving along the Lower Churchtown Road the other day, minding its (sic) business, when this sight appeared through the windscreen. No spelling to inaccurate, it seems...

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The Campaign for the Removal of English Errors in Public has its beady eye for the second time on London's 'Independent' newspaper, where standards are clearly in decline (it was recently sold for £1). Pictured, from yesterday's paper, an article about Arsenal Football Club ... singular subject takes single verb...