Illiteracy must stop. Full Stop.

I won't name the famous child protection charity at whose headquarters I found this abortion of a notice. But the title of this post may prompt you.

Quite frankly, I consider exposing vulnerable children to this kind of linguistic abuse to be a form of cruelty by itself. And as to 'purcharse', I hear it's the street word for a rather unsavoury sexual practice involving something called alocohol.

I didn't know the Orkneys had a football team

In the window of the bookies' next door to my flat.

ITV: doing its best for literacy

Whenever the advert breaks began and ended during the weekend's big film, ITV managed to flash up the title as Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix. The arses. That said, Newsnight managed to tag a school head as the 'Principle' a couple of weeks ago.

My trigger finger's itching.

You can learn so much

…by wandering the corridors of your place of work.

For instance, I notice that one of our meeting rooms is now labelled 'Staff Use Only'. This, I suspect, is a response to the discovery that a couple of students were using rooms for rather more carnal than intellectual knowledge.

I also discovered this today:

The other notice I saw but didn't get a chance to snap was 'BA Hons (Social Work) Literacy Test. Oh dear. I'm starting to understand why social workers are in the newspapers so often. Do any other degree courses need literacy tests? I kind of assumed that literacy was to be expected from anyone applying for a degree (though marking always raises doubts).

Stop! Grammar Time!

OK, not grammar really, but who could resist such a pun?

Shamefully, two of these pictures are taken in a UNIVERSITY coffee shop. What is the point of trying to instil literacy into students when their own institution can't be bothered?