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David Beckham (after visiting a school): "It was totally different to what I was teached when I was at school."
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At Orly airport, Paris:

Perhaps Diplomates are diplomats that you are friendly with.
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From a fancy restaurant in Brighton:
deserts
Rhubarb jalousie with crème Anglaise
Gooseberry fool with lime sherbet etc.
And not a Gobi or Sahara in sight...
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On a Chinese recruitment website: We do not care where are you from, but your oral english must be fluently.
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On the British Airways website: Error! We are unable to display your booking as all flights have been flown.
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From a Slovak website: SERVICE OFFER - We are not the best, but we are the others.
(You have to admire their honesty, if not their English)
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Seen on the internet. Someone wants people to write for his website:
Qualifications: No big fancy degree’s are needed for this. You do need to have a solid grasp of English and a medium level of grammer.
As he clearly doesn't....
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On a Czech hotel website:
The hotel offers to its guests: saloon ( for 15 persons) congerss room ( for 30-40 poeple ) for a bussines talks.
If their English is a reflection of their congerss room...
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Below we can see the delights awaiting the customers of a fish and chip shop in Cornwall. Jamie Oliver would turn in his grave - if he were dead. Click on the image to see a larger version.
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to rspected sir,
my name is m_____ k________ ,i m student of luminy and i m learning international business programme and i m looking for job for english teacher . i done my bachelor degree in chemical engineering. i passed out TOEFL exam vth 573 marks i can teach english grammer.
His students would probably pass out if he were given a job...
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You might expect a simple mistake like this in a small provincial museum but the one below was outside notre dame cathedral in Paris.
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| In the sign above, there is nothing wrong with the English, but the first question is, as is to be expected, sidestepped, but the second question, a pretty dumb question anyway, is just completely ignored... Click on the image if you can't read it. |
| More non-standard English from Peru, France and England. |