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Old 09-25-2012, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Australia
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Forgive me if its the second time I've posted but it keeps coming back -

persay.

 
Old 09-26-2012, 06:00 AM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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I am seeing whoa spelled woah quite often.
I see "whoa is me" now and then.
 
Old 09-26-2012, 06:02 AM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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I see "whoa is me" now and then.
I knew I should have had a cup of coffee before reading this thread.
 
Old 09-26-2012, 06:03 AM
 
Location: The Hall of Justice
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I heard some say "Circus Olay".
Our ex-roommate said that. Circus Ole (with the accent aigu, which I cannot add). I think he genuinely thought they were from Spain.
 
Old 09-26-2012, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Our ex-roommate said that. Circus Ole (with the accent aigu, which I cannot add). I think he genuinely thought they were from Spain.
You can copy and paste just about any accent sign, symbol, foreign alphabet, and it will display here. I have a whole file of them on a page in my Notepad, I can just copy/paste one out of there when I need one.

Or, even easier, just google a word that has the letter in it, and copy and paste the letter out of the word that appears in your list of hits. In this case, I just googled /ole toros/ and then copied out Olé and pasted the whole word in here. I had to google /ole toros/ because nearly all English language website spelled it without the accent.

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Old 09-27-2012, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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Sign outside a Bob Evans in NY State:

"WENSDAY SPECIAL: All you can eat pasta...."

Like on the big street sign. Not one employee noticed? Really? The manager didn't notice??

I shoulda took a picture! Doh@
 
Old 09-27-2012, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Maryland
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OK, I'm the only one who hasn't posted here yet. Here's what I see often in my travels, advertising land for sale, "Building Lots - 2 Acers for Sale." You would think that, with the expense of billboards, one would hire a literate sign-maker. There, my work is complete!
 
Old 09-27-2012, 09:44 AM
 
Location: Richardson, TX
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OK, I'm the only one who hasn't posted here yet. Here's what I see often in my travels, advertising land for sale, "Building Lots - 2 Acers for Sale." You would think that, with the expense of billboards, one would hire a literate sign-maker. There, my work is complete!
HAHA, I wonder what computers they are using. Maybe if they included the two Acers, like when banks gave you a toaster when you opened an account back in the day, it would help to move those lots.
 
Old 09-27-2012, 04:39 PM
 
Location: S.E. US
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I get a kick out of every ad I see (and there are plenty of them) that say "Baby Sale".

 
Old 09-27-2012, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Today on CD:

"delusions of grandier"
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