Clearly whoever wrote this sign is not going to be a contestant on Wheel of Fortune, nor will they be winning a game of Scrabble anytime soon. You might be able to swindle a good deal from them though….not sure if they’ll have anything you’ll want but it might be worth a go. I’m certainly interested with what all the “exstra” entails.
…I wonder if they’ve got any of these items up for grabs?
Definitely written by a child. Literally.
*twitch*
The sign says "fernitsher" and you wrote "Fernisther."
And you son misspelled the sign by titling this post as "Fernisther" when in fact the sign says "fernitsher"
EPIC FAIL TWICE>!!
EXSTRA EXSTRA Read All About It! Big Movig Fernitsher
I'm sure the books they're selling will be just like new.
So Instead of assuming it was written by a child or possibly a dyslexic… you think its hilarious and post it on the internet. Cool :| .
This just reminded me I need fernitsher and some close. lol
I like the new spelling betur to be onist.
Oh good grief… A person's ability to spell (or lack thereof) by no means is an indicator of their intelligence. My father and many of my neighbors were from a time when the average person was not even required to complete school to make a decent living. As a result their spelling was so horrendous that it would bring tears to your eyes. But they could read just fine and one of the neighbors I knew could have even been a contestant on Jeopardy even though he couldn't spell well.
Get your smug heads out of your tailpipes. One's ability to spell is not an indicator of one's intelligence.
And this was NOT written by a child. Children are not taught in public school to loop the "L" as seen in "tools" above. But in old public school which your grandparents attended they were.
How does one spell "hyacinth" correctly and misspell "extra"?
Hmmm…mysteries of a public education…
Actually, Mark, the "looped L" that you mention is how students ARE taught to write today. It's called D'Nealian style. Was supposed to help kids transition from printing to writing in cursive by making the letters more fluid… of course that was derailed by the growth of electronic means of communication and the phasing-out of cursive from many school across the US.
There is actually a push from several groups in the US to re-spell our words more phonetically. If you tried to spell furniture like it sounded, fern – it – sher would be pretty close. Of course then people from different regions would start spelling things as differently as they pronounce them, and English as a written language would become a collection of many regional dialects.
This sign could've also easily been someone who has come from another country. I have a friend from Ukraine who still hasn't figured out our "crazy el-fa-bet"
>Ryan: Actually, Mark, the “looped L” that you mention is how students ARE taught to write today. It’s called D’Nealian style. Was supposed to help kids transition from printing to writing in cursive by making the letters more fluid… of course that was derailed by the growth of electronic means of communication and the phasing-out of cursive from many school across the US.
That's interesting. Here they completely obliterated the looped L with printing something like 15 years ago. It became a discussion topic at a parent-teacher interview once. If I recall correctly it was over the matter of lowercase L and the number 1 looking too similar. (They wanted the l to be a straight line and the 1 to have the accented top and crossed line at the bottom) Personally I think it was stupid… But whatever.
I did also catch that it was spelled phonetically. I just forgot to mention it with my rant. :)
Thanks for the tips you're talking about it so others can know! Will use for sure. To tell you the truth, I never thought of it before, but later learned, you have to nurture the place that first brought you together and also prevent a lot of bad steps we all naturally make if you want to help fix your marriage