Seen, in today's ST, on page 12 of the Home section, an advertisement:
Prime Freehold Land
Central Bangkok
For Sale
On the instructions of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland, we are seeking preliminary expressions of interest in the acquisition of 14,000 sq.m. of Prime Freehold Land fronting Ploenchit Road Bangkok.
They decided to use the official name of the UK and still got it wrong? This notice, then, is less credible than the Engrishy Nigerian scam emails.
Filed under: Ad agency needs better editors, Bangkok property scams
4 comments:
think they got it correct...
"Whilst the Irish Free State became independent in 1922, after the Anglo-Irish War, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland continued in name until 1927 when it was renamed as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in accordance with the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927."
There's a big difference between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland. I'm not even sure if the second country exists =)
Ahh, oops
http://www.nato.int/pfp/sk/release093099.htm
well even NATO got it wrong once
Now surely this is just being a bit pedantic...
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