{"id":11437,"date":"2022-07-31T11:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T11:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=11437"},"modified":"2022-08-01T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:17:11","slug":"the-most-illiterate-petrol-station-in-north-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=11437","title":{"rendered":"The most illiterate petrol station in North Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/news\/north-wales-news\/meet-father-son-mission-become-24565646\">Daily Post has a story<\/a> &#8211; and accompanying video &#8211; about the efforts to make Plas Acton Garage in Wrexham the cheapest in North Wales.<\/p>\r\n<p>Amongst the ideas implemented by the owners to keep prices down, the article states:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>Regular customers can get their hands on &#8220;no strings attached&#8221; discount cards that strike a penny off every litre on the pump price indefinitely. In essence, if you topped up with roughly 50 litres of fuel you&#8217;d save 50p.<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>However, the owners are not offering one penny off the pump price, but &#8216;<em>one pence<\/em>&#8216;, as evidenced by the voucher being held up in the video still used for the Daily Post piece.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/petrol_one_pence.png\" alt=\"Vidoe still showing voucher offering one pence off a litre\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/petrol_one_pence.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/07\/petrol_one_pence-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n<p>If not the cheapest petrol station in North Wales, the wording on the voucher definitely makes it the region&#8217;s most illiterate petrol station.<\/p>\r\n<p>The proprietors are not the first to be unaware that the singular of <em>pence<\/em> is <em>penny<\/em>. The most egregious misuse of one pence for one penny occurred at the Despatch Box in the Chamber of the House of Commons (<em>where else? Ed.<\/em>). The date was 20th March 2013, the occasion was the annual budget speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer &#8211; one George Gideon Oliver Osborne, then aged 41 and three-quarters, who was very badly (and expensively) educated at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Paul%27s_School,_London\">St Paul&#8217;s School<\/a> and Magdalen College, Oxford \ud83d\ude00 (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1448\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Daily Post has a story &#8211; and accompanying video &#8211; about the efforts to make Plas Acton Garage in Wrexham the cheapest in North Wales. Amongst the ideas implemented by the owners to keep prices down, the article states: Regular customers can get their hands on &#8220;no strings attached&#8221; discount cards that strike a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,15],"tags":[16,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-11437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11447,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11437\/revisions\/11447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}