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Peterborough strikes again with this ad spotted by Jon C.

After it was all going so well with the plurals and apostrophes.

An L of a typo

I found this on WebProNews.

The Chicago Public Schools system recently sent an email to parents notifying them that CPS was raising the standards when it comes to the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, or ISAT. The new standards for the ISAT are being implemented by the Illinois State Board of Education, or ISBE.

So far so good.

But an unfortunate error at the end of the message which was suggesting parents visit the ISBE website for more information added an extra letter. So the link ended up as ISBEL.com

Oops. It's a 'private invite-only community' with the goal of 'exploring and enriching the modern woman’s sex life and sensuality'.

Of course, CPS apologised.

'As soon as it was brought to our attention, we sent out an updated letter with a corrected link and apologized for any inconvenience it may have caused,' said a spokeswoman.

Unfortunately, she didn't go as far as explaining how the web address ISBEL.com could possibly be confused with isbe.state.il.us

Does it mean that the email writer had Autotype turned on which replaced the correct address with one which had been visited on a previous occasion?

Just a thought.

Flavour of the month

How Angie J came across this I'm not sure.

It's on a Wrigley's Extra display so I assume it's some unidentified country's way of shortening the word Spearmint.

Doesn't really work in English though, does it?

I wouldn't fancy chewing on that, even if it is extra fresh.

And 20 grams?

Surely it comes in 10cc portions.

Dear Stalker

A warm welcome and thanks very much to Hil J for sending this one in via Twitter.

It appeared in The Telegraph last April and, even though the article mentions the gloriously-named Visayan Warty Pig, the publication date wasn't the First of April.

Yes, I checked just in case.

Anyway, not surprisingly, The Telegraph was quick to remove all traces of the error.

Or so it thought.

But it doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to uncover the evidence which remains to this day.

Witch filling?

Here's a very welcome contribution from Chris M who spotted this in Burnley.

Now I'd like to think that, due to Burnley's proximity to Pendle Hill, some plucky entrepreneur has seized a great marketing opportunity.

But no, a quick Google search for 'sandwitch shop' in Burnley (was that a sand-witch hunt?) reveals nothing so it looks as though it's a genuine Burnleyite gaffe.

Shame.

I was quite fancying a toe of frog flour cake and an eye of newt nudger.