Hope their coffee is better than their English!

You would think that Starbucks would know better...
What is wrong?
Please let me know what you think in the comments section below.

Answer below!




It should be ''... on two floors''

Prepositions are quite tricky in English.
For some practice with prepositions, have a look at this:
https://envenglish.blogspot.com/2011/03/lesson-7-prepositions.html

Close encounter

The same problem appears in both of these photos.
But what is wrong?
Please let me know what you think in the comments section below.

Answer below!






They should say 'closed', as in not open.
Close means nearby.

Yet another spelling mistake

Can you see the spelling mistake here?
Please let me know what you think in the comments section below.

Answer below!






It should of course be 'breakfast'.

Bad English for Salgado's exhibition

Here is some really bad English I saw today on the Prague metro.

But what are the mistakes in this advert for the Sebastiao Salgado exhibition in Prague?

Answer below!


Firstly, it should be:
''3.5 million visitors...''

In English we use a full stop/period not a comma as the decimal mark.
For more on this, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark

When we say a specific number, it is million rather than millions:
one million species, 22 million dollars.
When it is general, we say millions:
there were millions of species, he has millions of dollars.


Secondly, the rest of the sentence is confusing:
''...from all over the world''
It sounds like they will all be there now!
It would be better to say something like:
''...around the world''

Again and again

Here is a common mistake made by Germans - they misuse an English word.
But what is the mistake on this packet of tissues?
Answer below!

ANSWER!
It should be recycled, not recycling.

Spelling nightmare

More menu mayhem!
Three mistakes - two spelling and one adjective use.
Can you spot them?!

Answers below!







ANSWERS!

In the first line it should be wine, not vine (vine is the plant which grapes grow on).
In the second one, it should be iced coffee - the adjective is iced not ice, and coffee is with double e.

Bad taste

Another example of simple mistakes on expensive signs.
Two words, both wrong!
Can you see the mistakes?

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ANSWERS!

Gourmet is only used in the singular.
Cousine is a mix up of two words - cuisine (food) and cousin (a relative)!

Hotel problems

These two signs were both in a hotel I stayed in near Salzburg last week.
But what is wrong?
Answers below!

ANSWERS!

In the first photo, it should say ''non-smoking'', not ''non-smoker''!

In the second one, ''at choice'' is wrong. There are two ways to correct it:
''You have two kinds of pillow to choose from.'', or
''You have a choice of two kinds of pillow.''

Sounds tasty!

What is wrong here?
Answer below!

ANSWER:


The problem is adjective order. It should say 'Old Czech dessert'. But it would be best to say something like 'traditional' rather than 'old'.

Articles again

Another problem with the definite article. Plus the verb should be changed.
(This is from a cash machine.)
Answer below!

ANSWER:

It should be 'a' receipt, not 'the'.
And it would be much better to simply say: 'Would you like a receipt?'