Monday, February 25, 2008

All SAlES


A modest Mike Houghton doesn't want to take credit for having discovered this lowercase L in Seth Godin's blog. Now, Michael, Seth Godin may be a best-selling author, but it was you who recognized this All SAlES gem, and in my book, that makes YOU the boss!

5 comments:

travisl said...

Gotta give the writer props, though. He spelled "you're" correctly. That seems to be pretty unusual.

Miranda said...

Ha, your blog is funny. I never knew it was such an issue, now I'll be looking at signs all the time.. As I'm double and triple checking my comment so that I don't screw it up...

John said...

Despite the use of the uppercase L in "mail", the signmaker used a lowercase i. interesting choice....

Ali B. said...

Like John, I noticed the lowercase i right from the start. I have been a "victim" of uppercase L/lowercase i combination my entire life. Being a teacher, it disturbs me to watch my young students make these upper/lower errors. :) Most common error for the children is entering the letter of their first name as a capital in EVERY word they write. James uses a capital J EVERY time. Bobby uses a capital B... etc.

All of my old picture books have my name in them - I must have been 4 years old when I started writing my name:

ALi

This was actually a progression from the former:

A7I (I not only inserted uppercase L but it was upside down AND backward)

Family, friends, and colleagues continually spell my name ALi. I cringe. My Grandma actually writes it in cursive - ali

Sincerely enjoying your blog,

ALi

Anonymous said...

No joke? I can return my lip balm by mail? That's customer service!