by Tony Sebastian who is an elephant when it comes to English syntax (an ana-grammar) and a hopeless PJ-ist.

I admire people who know their spellings. I have always prided myself for being amongst the 5% of Indians who can spell “Embarrassed” right. (What are you looking at? You used to spell it “Embarassed” till now. Yes you did. Try searching your G-Mail for reference.) And thanks to Jimmy and Prathiba, I am now also amongst the 1% of people who type properly over chat. Therefore, it was a little unsettling when my subconscious rhyming/punning syndrome acted up.

Has it ever happened to you that you’ve typed a homophone of the word you intended? For example you type “where” instead of “were” or “right” instead of “write” or “thing” instead of “think”? That is what happened to me on quite a few occasions (I promptly christened it “sounds like trouble” ;) ) and left my ego crushed. But as is often the case, something inevitably happens which feeds my ego and turns me back into the narcissistic jerk you know and love. We have already discussed about how typos can cause trouble . This time, let us look at a few pics/screenshots which I clicked here and there. So go on and laugh out loud at the grammar/spelling mistakes and feel good about yourself.

Er… okay, I no urine here

This made me laugh so hard that I had to pee all over again (in a different urinal)

Do I really have to say anything about this pic? How anyone can spell “BEAUTY” as “BEQUTY” is beyond me…. Wait! Unless they meant B-Equity or something?? You know, they would buy shares at the “par large cap” prices or something? Wow! Really cryptic stock brokers!

This is the first time I came across a penalty for not smoking. So I did it and coughed (up 200 bucks)

I don’t think I want to spoil the hilarity of this pic by adding a caption to it. But I had put up this pic somewhere and received the following comment “Man !! send this pic to Times of India .You can even win the context ..” :-| (In case you missed it, take a look at Zameer's surname.)

This was a news article on DAWN’s website – you can find the actual article here. (Thanks to Nikhil)

Even Shell pumps are run by gults! Let's be thankful they at least wrote it lezibly. :P

(Addendum: Thushar has very adroitly pointed out that "squeege" is not a mis-spelling of squeeze, but squeegee. Thanks for making me feel stupid again Thushar :) )

I guess I saved the “worrest” for the last?

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