Update: 12th April 2016: The Central Precinct of Chandler’s Ford has now put up a new signboard, after receiving feedback from this post below, which was first published on 26th March 2016.
The original post:
Chippy Minton has recently triggered our memories of Chandler’s Ford, in Chandler’s Ford from the 1980s – Part 1 and Part 2.
The Central Precinct is also a place filled with memories.
Today I’m showing you the business signboard of the Central Precinct.
You asked: what shops are actually in the Central Precinct? Which shops are new, and which has left?
Enjoy your discovery.
I’ve noticed that the old sign has only recently been updated in 2016, though some shops had long gone, but their names remained for over a year.
Count the fonts in this old board!
In March 2016, I found the signboard has been updated. There is now only one font for all businesses.
(Have you spotted any mistake? Count them.)
What have you noticed in these signboards? Any surprise? Share your comment with us.
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mens world, On Line and Baggett should be Men’s world, Online and baguette.
Ruby,
Good points.
Interestingly, Mens World is so named. I think the company decides it is their trademark (without an apostrophe). Mens World Hairdressing
The new board carries a few more mistakes, and not only the 2 that you found, those I found include:
1) Incorrect name. The physiotherapy company’s name is Physio2fit, not Physio Fit.
2) Incorrect name. The furniture company’s name is From Old to New, not from New to Old!
3) Incorrect name. The hairdresser is Scarlet Ribbons (1 t and 1 s), not Scarlett Ribbon (2 t and no s).
4) Incorrect name. The recruitment company is Upfront and Personnel, not Up Front Personnel.
I’ll try to find out who created this signboard. I hope it is not EBC.
To prove my points, I’ve just created a collage to show you the names of these companies. I hope the board will be corrected to reflect their businesses.
It’s probably not EBC who are responsible for the sign. More likely to be the freeholder, or a collective effort by the leaseholders.
Chippy,
I contacted Dan from the furniture shop yesterday. He told me he knew nothing about the new sign, and he’s going to find out the details for us later.
Hi there
The sign was updated on the instruction of the management company as businesses had changed.
It’s very sad that the printing company or the management company did not check the names and spelling, I’ll be seeing the management company and will raise it with them.
TIM BOND, Relish Canteen and Upfront & Personnel
Thank you Tim for this update.
I hope errors will be amended soon as all businesses deserve the best advertising and respect they could get.
The language mavens are abroad searching for a participle to hang on, an infinitive to split, an S that needs an apostrophe before or after it. They can’t get no satisfaction if we don’t make mistakes. The boys done good with that sign.
The fluidity of language is one of its delights, to boldly go…
“I didn’t buy no tomatos for those heros to put on their pianoes.”
“I didn’t buy any tomatoes for those heroes to put on their pianos.”
Fun, isn’t it. But don’t do it in public.
If mistakes aren’t pointed out, lessons are never learnt.
The sign should record the business names correctly, irrespective of the grammatical or spelling correctness of those names. Sometimes a business name may intentional use non-standard spelling or grammar for effect (e.g The Right Plaice for a fish and chip shop).
Spelling should always be correct (and misplaced/omitted apostrophes are probably spelling rather than grammar). As for grammar – it all comes down to the “register” of language you are using – what you are writing and who you are writing it for. What is important is that what you are writing is clearly understood, and correct grammar helps this (as in the “let’s eat grandmas” vs “let”s eat, grandma” example given by Alison). However, I agree that being too dogmatic can make it awkward to read. Colloquially (including when writing direct speech), the rules are much more relaxed. No one would seriously think that “I didn’t buy no tomatoes” means “I did buy some tomatoes”. Who decided that a double-negative makes a positive anyway? Why can’t it be used to reinforce the negative?
Just to say that on Chandler’s Ford Today, Chandler’s Ford carries an apostrophe, as a singular noun. Read the debate here: Chandler’s Ford Today For Chandler’s Ford Community.
Recently, the Parish Church has decided to keep the apostrophe in Chandler’s Ford (instead of Chandlers Ford) in a recent church marketing campaign. (The apostrophe was dropped for a while, but it’s now in place thanks to some people’s strong reasoning.)
(For some reason, I don’t know why in the email notification of new posts, Chandler’s has become Chandlers in the heading, which upsets me deeply, but I haven’t found the root to this problem yet. Still working on it!)
I must say I’m more forgiving when I see ‘Kid’s Eat Free’ at Goodies. It’s not a big deal. It’s just an A4 on the shop window. We know what the sign means.
However I’m less forgiving when I saw a huge sign like this in Salisbury a while back. John Humphrys would have wept!
When I saw this huge signboard at the entrance of World of Water, I don’t even know what to think. How could someone have allowed this sign to be put up?
In a lot of bookshops, department stores, shoe shops, and even hospital’s waiting rooms, children’s xxx is childrens xxx. (Trust me, I have a collection of these images. I’m very sad; I know that.) I often think that it’s a shame that some businesses or even educational institutions don’t pay attention to details. Details make us stand out. If you pay attention to details, perhaps it would earn you some respect, trust, or even more businesses. Trust is important.
My son told me that I’m being ‘fussy’, but I’m only being ‘fussy’ about my own writing. I have no intention to impose my ideas to others. I’m not a grammar or punctuation militant.
Back to this Central Precinct signboard, the mistake accounts for 23% – 6 out of 26 business names are incorrect. It’s more than a grammar issue.
I don’t have a problem with “Childrens Ward” as it is a ward for children, not owned by children (dative not genitive).
I took this photo a while ago – at Winchester hospital.
Do you think the sign is fine?
It makes no sense. What is a sub-wait? Unless it is where you catch a submarine from, which seems unlikely in a hospital.
No Eye Deer, my friend. 🙂
I still say the best grammatical error is:-
“Let’s eat Grandma!”
Oh the importance of a well placed comma!
Years ago in Sri Lanka, the local governor telegrammed London about what to do with a brigand he had apprehended. The clipped reply was KILL NOT SAVE. If the brigand had been allowed to place the comma, he would have survived. Alas there was no comma so the governor invented one and put it after KILL.
When Britain was fighting in the North West of India to gain control of the state of Synd, the governor there was eventually able to telegraph the Foreign Minister one word “PECCATA” which, every Latin scholar or good catholic knows, means “I have sinned”.
Then there is the problem of how to punctuate – A woman without her man is nothing. Neither outcome is true.