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posted Aug 25 @ 11:07 AM by Jason Kottke · gift link

Apparently, the misspelling of “specials” in the lunch photo that I took for the Minneapolis Sign Project is a well-known grammatical miscue referred to as “the grocer’s plural”. Thanks to James for the info.

Here’s that link I mentioned earlier to the Xootr article on Fast Company. Turns out I wasn’t smart enough to find it. Thanks to several readers for setting me straight.

If you liked the tricked airport workers bit, you might like some other stuff by the man behind the prank, Chris Morris. Thanks to Stu for the info.