Stewart Clark, an Englishman living in Norway, has collected English bloopers from Norway and other places of the world, and published them in a book. It is primarily written for Norwegians since many words have quite a different meaning in Norwegian than in English.

Since I travel a lot I fancy those from hotels, like these:

“Contact the concierge immediately for informations. Please don’t wait last minutes then it would be to late to arrange any inconveniences.” Hotel in India

“Visitors are expected to complain at the office between 9 and 11 daily” Hotel in Athens


Some are outright confusing like this one from Japan:

“1:about the window in the guest room It isn’t possible that it is possible to open a window at the guest room (On the safetyr)

2:about the laundering The wash becomes a finish the evening tomorrow at the front desk until 7 o’clock at night of the day. (I becomes the evening tomorrow in the morning even if it has)."


And some are about as good in English as I am. This one is from an ad in Moscow Times:

“Bet us your letter of business translation do. Every people in our staffing know English like the hand of their back. Up to the minute wise-street phrases, don’t you know, old boy.”