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Alton Towers/Merlin Typos & Grammatical Errors

One does have to wonder; do they not use spellcheck software?

Or even ChatGPT or Gemini, in fact? One of the generative AI clients could probably remove spelling mistakes in one simple prompt!

Some of the mistakes made here would probably be picked up by a spellchecker very easily… maybe not “Pirate’s Blunder”, admittedly, as blunder is a legitimate word, but some of the ones in the email I received on Thursday would definitely have been picked up by a spellchecker, I feel.
 
rob666 said:
But blunder is correct spelling.
Just wrong.
Sort of.
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I did edit the post to address that (you caught me mid-edit, I think!), but if they told ChatGPT or similar that the restaurant was called Pirate’s Plunder, then surely it would still pick up on the error?

I was also talking more generally rather than about that specific one; some of these typos Alton are churning out would definitely be picked up by simple spellchecker software, I feel.
 
Matt N said:
One does have to wonder; do they not use spellcheck software?

Or even ChatGPT or Gemini, in fact? One of the generative AI clients could probably remove spelling mistakes in one simple prompt!

Some of the mistakes made here would probably be picked up by a spellchecker very easily… maybe not “Pirate’s Blunder”, admittedly, as blunder is a legitimate word, but some of the ones in the email I received on Thursday would definitely have been picked up by a spellchecker, I feel.
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Or just, you know, proof read things before publishing/sending off to print? They clearly don't, or at least not very well, and haven't for years!
 
As typos go, Towers have really outdone themselves with this one.
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Team edit: post moved from general discussion and so is duplicated with an earlier post. However this is post is being left in place as it's been replied to.
 
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Matt N said:
One does have to wonder; do they not use spellcheck software?
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I'm not sure that spellcheckers would necessarily help in a lot of these situations because the text is housed in graphics.

Are spell checkers now standard in graphics software? Genuine question, my version of Photoshop is a few year's old now, so not sure if it's now more commonplace than it used to be.

Equally, a spell check would only have picked up the missing apostrophe, 'Blunder' is as correct as 'Plunder' from a Spelling and Grammar POV.
 
If I’m being a massive pedant, I’d also argue that their spelling of QR code is spaced out enough that it almost looks like Q R code in the font they’ve used, which is incorrect.

But as I say, that’s me being very, very pedantic!
 
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