{"id":3975,"date":"2014-04-11T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3975"},"modified":"2014-04-11T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T07:16:30","slug":"the-importance-of-the-space-bar-and-proofreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3975","title":{"rendered":"The importance of the space bar and proofreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wig and Pen public house in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Truro\">Truro<\/a>, Cornwall had some unexpected publicity earlier this week when a badly temporary temporary sign was snapped by an amused regular before being hurriedly removed by embarrassed staff, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndailypress.co.uk\/Wig-Pen-pub-sign-reads-Wig-Penis-open-business\/story-20941642-detail\/story.html\">according to yesterday&#8217;s Western Daily Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the sign came down, its fame had spread round the world by social media; and it&#8217;s easy to see why.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/wig_penis-600x403.jpg\" alt=\"sign saying The Wig &amp; Penis Is Open For Business\" width=\"600\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/wig_penis-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/wig_penis-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/04\/wig_penis.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, according to the Western Daily Press article, the sign itself was not the only linguistic clanger involved in the episode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But a remember [sic] of staff named Georgie-Tim later took to Twitter to say: &#8220;Well, it got you&#8217;re attention!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wig and Pen public house in Truro, Cornwall had some unexpected publicity earlier this week when a badly temporary temporary sign was snapped by an amused regular before being hurriedly removed by embarrassed staff, according to yesterday&#8217;s Western Daily Press. By the time the sign came down, its fame had spread round the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[16,10,22,35],"class_list":["post-3975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975","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=3975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3975\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}