I would have been with the likes of Ted O’Driscoll Joinery, Crossan Joinery, Lohan Joinery, and also Meath County Council. To me the timber or plastic surrounding the window in a commercial premises is a shopfront. It is not a shop front. I spotted this sign last weekend in Carrick-On-Shannon and was planning a blog on the wisdom of using a sign-writer who puts in gaps in words that they write. I am glad that I checked the online dictionaries before continuing too far with that planned blog. Maybe it is my construction training, maybe it is my sense of being right, but I find it difficult to accept shopfront as being an incorrect spelling. It might go in the same folder as window sill and window cill – that of multiple spellings in regular use. Or maybe I will have to accept that I was incorrect…… | “Sorry, no results for “shopfront” in the Collins English Dictionary.” “Sorry, no entries for shopfront were found.” |