Grammatical Error in Perrier Ad?

Spotted this ad in Her World magazine recently. Grammatical errors get to me. So when I saw the copy for this, I couldn't help but put this up.

"You can't missed it"??

Shouldn't it be: "You can't miss it" instead OR "You couldn't have missed it"?

Find it strange that they even published something like this. I mean, people are not perfect, and everyone has made his/her grammatical mistakes before. But the fact that you're going to publish this as an ad, shouldn't someone have checked it? Also, the copy is only a one liner, not like you could have missed the error. Odd.

Unless some of you think otherwise--that it isn't a grammatical error. Then you'll have to explain why. Cos I see it... I see it very clearly. It's a mistake there.

We can see that Perrier is/was the sponsor for the Her World golf challenge. Didn't the magazine people vet it? Really baffles me. *shrugs*

This post is not meant to put any company or anyone down. It is just a one-off ad which was observed and commented upon. No offense intended whatsoever.

Comments

TNH said…

wow...sometime people will make mistake...

September 27, 2008 at 3:49 PM

DK said…

That is one typo that "You can't missed it". :)

September 29, 2008 at 2:37 PM

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