Wanna buy a vowel?

Specialty Pizza, now with extra letters!


I’m kind of a spelling nazi. If a business is going to advertise, I expect the grammar and spelling to be correct. How hard is it, since virtually everyone has spell check these days?

Here’s a fine example:

These folks paid a pretty penny to have their ad printed in a full-color. two-sided, heavy, glossy cardstock insert that went out in the advo mailer to my neighborhood. One wrong word makes a good looking ad look pretty stupid.

See, here:

Okay, maybe you can’t hit spellcheck when lettering your sign. How about a dictionary?

Here’s my proposed slogan (sorry, it’s bad, really bad): Sit a spell and get your nails done in the DQ Drive-Thru window. (Get it, “spell” from your sand “witch”?)

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