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"More useful everyday"

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 18.00
by cdd
This has been bugging me for absolutely ages; the problem lies on many of the pages on MSN. Microsoft, everyday without a space is an adjective - as in "an everyday activity", whereas the form which is needed in that sentence is "every day".

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. Can anyone think of any other good examples where text is written so wrongly?

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 20.32
by Cheese Head
....does anybody remember the ol' slogan "What are you going to do today?" That was great!

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 20.34
by rts
I used to keep writing alot instead of a lot, but tbh write everyday. After a while, two seperate words can become an entirely new single word in their own right.

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 20.37
by Cheese Head
Not forgetting 'You can fly', dropped September 11th 2001. Changed to 'Yes, you can' soon after.
I dont remember these , any pictures of them being used?

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 20.47
by Pete
Of course Sept 11 also took that fab coffee advert where the annoying American gets ejected out of a plane.

Wasn't it "Where do you want to go today?" Cheese Head?

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 21.02
by nwtv2003
Anyone else constantly get on Hotmail that Pop Up which is entitled Halifax, that being the bank, but when you maximise it, it is MSN Dating for some reason?

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 21.16
by Cheese Head
Yep, it was:

Image

Posted: Tue 24 Feb, 2004 21.33
by cat
Thankyou.

ARGH!

It's "Thank you".

TWO WORDS.

Posted: Wed 25 Feb, 2004 00.49
by dvboy
I'm reading "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss at the moment which includes the following example:

"Prudential - were here to help you."

Posted: Wed 25 Feb, 2004 01.01
by iSon
c@t wrote:Thankyou.

ARGH!

It's "Thank you".

TWO WORDS.
Thankyou, I had been struggling with that one.

Posted: Wed 25 Feb, 2004 06.23
by dvboy
Some more from Eats, Shoots and Leaves:

"Make our customer's live's easier" on an Abbey National ad.
"Recruitment at it's best" - slogan of an employment agency.