Companies around the world pump out a lot of text – and not all of it is any good, or makes any sense. Here are some examples of strange and funny text we’ve seen on websites, in brochures and in our inboxes over the last few months.

Danes are lucky. There is so much overlap between Danish and English, that if you can't think of the right English word, you can often directly translate a Danish word and still be understood. But not always. Occasionally it can go hideously wrong – with hilarious results.

How many times have you come across a text that left you asking, ‘what was that all about?’ This month, we’ve gathered a selection of texts to challenge your reading comprehension – and perhaps tickle your funny bone.

Eight years have come and gone, but the laughs and lessons continue. Historians might need a few decades to sift through the remains of George W. Bush’s ‘misunderestimated’ presidency, but the rest of us can already learn a thing or two about public speaking from this distinguished orator.

Using an automated direct mail campaign is a great way to track every mail and every response. But entrusting your text to the IT company that automates your campaign may mean you send out gibberish to thousands of prospects. Here are some painfully clear examples.

There's nothing like a winter city break to get away from it all at Christmas. But what is this Czech tourist brochure trying to sell exactly? "Take one of our horse-drawn city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages!"

WordSpin’s recent article about misspellings got readers’ attention. We’re glad you liked it. Now here’s a far more complicated topic: mispronunciations.

Did you notice the one in the title? Felt good to find it, didn’t it?

Spelling mistakes are one of those things. Find one, and you feel a sense of satisfaction and superiority. It might even make you laugh out loud! But make one yourself, and you feel silly, guilty or outright dumb. Could even make...

Sometimes you just wish you hadn’t. And with emails, we all wish we hadn’t fairly often. Here are some examples of emails that were sent before they were proofread*.

Our article on the process of naming provides some helpful hints on how to get naming right. But sometimes naming new products, brands and services can go horribly wrong. Here are some examples of names with unintended meanings, unpronounceable spellings or offensive connotations.

Ah, bloopers. We may pretend not to notice them in the office, at the church or on the train – but we take them away with us and share them over and over with our friends and colleagues. Because there’s just nothing like someone else’s little mess up to brighten your day. Here are a few we’ve spotte...

No one said English spelling was easy. There are far too many so-called rules, and even more exceptions. Nun of them seam to make any cents. Whoops, that should be: none of them seem to make any sense. See what we mean?

Bloopers can appear anywhere, in any country and in any written format. From cash machines to menus. Here are a choice few.

European companies sometimes make mistakes in their English-language advertisements and marketing texts, simply because they don't use native-English writers. Many of these problems just make the language more complicated than it needs to be. Others change the intention of the message so much that t...

We often run across some gems like this! If only these companies had contacted Eye for Image, blunders like this one might have been avoided.