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“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.”

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This entry was posted on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 11:08 pm by bounder and is filed under culture, links. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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  1. [...] BiNS. Share [...]

  2. 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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