{"id":14873,"date":"2024-12-03T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14873"},"modified":"2025-01-01T21:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T21:36:53","slug":"da-iawn-sports-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14873","title":{"rendered":"Da iawn, Sports Direct!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>As spotted on the Sports Direct website.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/12\/sports_direct_cyrmu-e1733241204833.jpg\" alt=\"Bobble hat featuring wording Cyrmu instead of Cymru\" width=\"460\" height=\"820\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/12\/sports_direct_cyrmu-e1733241204833.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/12\/sports_direct_cyrmu-e1733241204833-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Needless to say, some parts of the Welsh media have been having a field day with this elementary orthographical error, with <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/culture\/sports-retail-giant-misspells-cymru-on-bobble-hat\/\">Nation.Cymru jesting<\/a> as follows:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>We can neither confirm or deny that Sports Direct are selling Egnland hats as well!<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>It looks like the product has now been withdrawn from sale as it does not come up in search results on the company&#8217;s website, as <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/culture\/sports-direct-removes-cymru-bobble-hat-with-incorrect-spelling\/\">confirmed today (4th Dec.)<\/a> by Nation.Cymru.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><em>Update 02\/01\/2025:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/culture\/sports-direct-cymru-bobble-hat-is-back-and-its-spelled-correctly\/\">Nation.Cymru reported<\/a> yesterday that the bobble hat has now reappeared with the correct spelling of Cymru.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As spotted on the Sports Direct website. Needless to say, some parts of the Welsh media have been having a field day with this elementary orthographical error, with Nation.Cymru jesting as follows: We can neither confirm or deny that Sports Direct are selling Egnland hats as well! It looks like the product has now been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[36,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-14873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-comment","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873","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=14873"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15003,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14873\/revisions\/15003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}