We expect
major companies to get everything right in their marketing campaigns, including
spelling. I was rather shocked, therefore, to receive a promotional, all
singing, all dancing email from Debenhams announcing an offer on “beauty and
frangrance”! Really Debenhams, I suggest you learn your spellings for next week
and see me.
It’s great
that these days, announcements are frequently made on board trains, rather than
passengers having to hang out of windows at stations to try and catch an almost
unintelligible announcement. But some of the current announcements can be
rather bemusing, For example, “You are on carriage twelve of eight” – work that
one out!
However,
like with anything these announcements can sometimes develop faults. Whilst
travelling on a train where some problem was preventing the recorded announcements
from being broadcast, the guard had to take over. He obviously was not at all
familiar with what he should be doing, or even where he was, as he announced,
“We will shortly be arriving at another station – somewhere.” That was clear
then!
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