Monday, October 26, 2009

In my search for a potential lesson horse, I have found some interesting ads:

Luke is a very friendly 3 yr old palomino qh stud, blaze & 4 socks. Hes been saddled, longed, ties well, good for the farrier, and is a very calm horse. Would excel in any direction you take him. Very quiet and well mannered. For sale as an unregistered stud, he is from reg stock but no papers. Luke also has a belly nut so I would not recommend him for any breeding program. Thanks.

A belly nut?!? Took me a while to realize she meant that he has a retained testicle. Poor horse, sounds cute, but not many people are going to want a horse that needs an expensive surgery right off the bat. At least they knew how to spell longed. That has to be one of the most widely misspelled words in horse ads. It can also be "lunged", but people often write it "lounged" as in the horse knows how to lounge....yes, I am sure it does.

Of course if you want spelling errors, then buysell.com is the place to look:

BEAUTIFUL GREAT MOVING 6 YEAR OLD BAYRONE MAIR ROAD ENGLISGH AND WESTERN BY 6 AND 8 YEAR OLD GIRLS WAS SHOWN AS...

Maybe the ad was written by the 6 and 8 year old girls? Actually I think many of the ads are phoned in and typed out by someone who has no clue about horses...or spell check.

Pony Harness For A TeenComplete

I could think of a few teens that should have harnesses....

Horse shopping is so much fun.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow thats some pretty awful spelling! Some people are just so stupid even if they know nothing about horses they should know how to spell the proper rode!

We live in a world of some straight out stupid people.

Beth

Hillside Stable said...

Can you imagine paying for an ad and seeing it spelt that way?