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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2003-06-17 10:56 am
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I forgot...

...to mention last week, after a trip to Waitrose:

They have a section of one aisle designated (according to the plackard above) Table Stationery.

It's, like, napkins and disposable plates and such.

Table Stationery?

I ask you.
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[identity profile] wimble.livejournal.com 2003-06-17 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
You've found a usage of words previously unrecorded in the notes of the OED.

We now invite you to have the horror recorded for posterity, using the OED submission form:
http://www.oed.com/public/readers/submitform.dtl

[identity profile] mr-tom.livejournal.com 2003-06-17 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
All I have to add is: "Bathroom Stationery"

[identity profile] beckyc.livejournal.com 2003-06-17 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
But but but... just think of the number of hilarious stationary/stationery puns that you could make.

And just wait for the corner shops to catch on to the new way of describing such goods and to put up signs with the wrong spelling...

Can you tell I'm bored?

(Anonymous) 2003-06-18 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Does the person who mentioned bathroom stationery and Twyford know that Twyford's used to be (maybe still is) one of the major makers of whatis tweely known as "sanitary ware" i.e. bog pans. And when did lavatory paper become toilet paper I want to know?
The phrase table stationery had already been earmarked for a forthcoming column - does obscure column in provincial paper count for OED??? Spelunca
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