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Monday, June 8, 2015

Our World: Misspelled Products

I have to shake my head in disbelief when I see merchandise with misspelled words being unloaded in countries where English is not the native language.  A Saudi couple was trying to figure out what these mugs said so I stopped and explained that they were misspelled and that "gombing" is not a word.  They decided not to buy the mugs.  I have a friend here who told me that her Saudi in-laws bought wallpaper for their home with misspelled words on it.  I personally think that merchandise with mistakes like this should be destroyed.


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5 comments:

  1. JudyJune 8, 2015 at 5:57 PM

    I am trying to figure out what it was supposed to say.

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  2. Jerry Mc KennaJune 8, 2015 at 7:12 PM

    It looks like it is supposed to be a mustache cup, so gombing is probably combing, even if the phrase 'thanks for combing' makes no sense here.

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  3. William KendallJune 9, 2015 at 12:41 AM

    I would have to agree with you.

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  4. Susie of ArabiaJune 12, 2015 at 10:44 PM

    It's definitely one of those epic fails. Maybe it was intended to be a play on words of "Thanks for Coming" or something. I have no idea.

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  5. BillJune 13, 2015 at 1:42 PM

    At least this is relatively harmless, if bizarre and confusing. Unfortunately the same cannot always be said in places like Japan or sometimes in China where I have seen young women wearing t-shirts with extremely rude and incongruous words in English jumbled across the front - I imagine these young women have absolutely no idea what these words mean and would be horrified if they did.

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