[lg policy] Self-styled 'grammar vigilante' corrects badly punctuated shop signs in dead of night

[Dave Sayers]

Many list members will have seen this story doing the rounds, e.g. 
https://goo.gl/FsieiI, https://goo.gl/OGW19T.

It's based on a BBC radio special feature, available to listen to here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08kys4c

I'm never altogether sure how long BBC radio content will be available for online 
listening, so I rendered it into an MP3 which I've put online for everyone to 
download and use more reliably (including offline) for teaching/research: 
https://goo.gl/1RfU5G

Possible undergraduate essay topics include (!):
- the way different media outlets covered the story (https://goo.gl/eml0Up)
- all sorts of stuff about social semiotics and public/private space;
- comparisons to officially sanctioned sign-correctors, e.g. https://youtu.be/qKOGgYaqwhg
- differing regional attitudes to this sort of thing, e.g. Eastern Daily Press had a 
nice take on opposing views in Norwich, https://goo.gl/vbOVqS (probably ever so 
slightly journalistically skewed...).

Enjoy!

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers, ORCID no. 0000-0003-1124-7132
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University | www.shu.ac.uk
Honorary Research Fellow, Cardiff University & WISERD | www.wiserd.ac.uk
dave.sayers at cantab.net | http://shu.academia.edu/DaveSayers

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