Say what?

24 February 2008
By Jon Bounds

misheard, originally uploaded by graphiquillan.

 

“The idea for these button badge mock-ups came as a result of a number of experiences since I moved to Birmingham. The theme: the oddities of interpretations of place names in Birmingham derived from typos, spell-check suggestions, mispronunciations and adolescent mischief.”

Bloody great.

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4 Responses to Say what?

  1. Created in Birmingham » Perky Bra on 25 February 2008 at 10:09 am

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  2. dp on 27 February 2008 at 1:18 am

    Came across this while looking for a text permipulator. Read about the legal wrangles here.

  3. [...] misheard birmingham: get your hands on the goods at cafepress Celebrate the errors of typing, pronunciation and teenage word japes with a piece of Misheard Birmingham memorabilia. Following on from the surprisingly positive responses regarding this post, I thought ‘what the ‘eck’, cleaned up the images and set up shop. You can blame Jon Bounds for me discovering online shop site Cafepress as I cottoned on to the fact that he uses this on the mighty Birmingham: It’s Not Shit. [...]

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