{"id":146104,"date":"2025-11-21T08:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146104\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:31:08","slug":"the-warehouse-selling-xmas-decorations-with-spelling-errors-no-one-peeked-at-a-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/146104\/","title":{"rendered":"The Warehouse selling Xmas decorations with spelling errors \u2013 no one peeked at a dictionary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFeaturing a mix of playful messages and seasonal illustrations, these tags are perfect for personalising your Christmas gifts with charm and cheer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A number of items from The Warehouse's Wonderland range feature spelling errors. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A number of items from The Warehouse&#8217;s Wonderland range feature spelling errors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">The Kiwi-owned retailer is also selling a decorative sign with a misspelling of the world\u2019s most prominent reindeer. The Wonderland Novelty Hanging Santa\u2019s Reindeer Sign Decoration, $8, is listed as featuring \u201call nine names, including Rudolph\u201d. However, that isn\u2019t accurate \u2013 the last name listed on the decorative sign is Rudolf. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created by copywriter Robert L May in 1939, appearing in a booklet published by Chicago department store Montgomery Ward. The Germanic version of the name, Rudolf, derives from the words Hruod, meaning fame, and olf, meaning wolf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">In 2022, The Warehouse Group apologised after releasing a poster of a map of Aotearoa with many misspelled M\u0101ori names, including Rotorua (spelled Roturua), Wairoa, (spelled Weiroa) and Paraparaumu (spelled Paraparaumo).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">In 2023, Australian-headquartered store chain Kmart removed a Christmas food-themed bag featured the pun \u201cham-mas\u201d in large lettering from shelves after the Australian Jewish Association pointed out the unintentional visual likeness to Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by several countries and international bodies, including Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFeaturing a mix of playful messages and seasonal illustrations, these tags are perfect for personalising your Christmas gifts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1975,682,138,18399,63703,127,88327,31406,19959,63726,98094,189,111,139,7805,69,5270,98093,98092,4460,24035,16739,23750,3235,98091,9636,223,684,698,18840,102,98090],"class_list":["post-146104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-at","tag-being","tag-business","tag-christmas","tag-decorations","tag-despite","tag-dictionary","tag-direction","tag-error","tag-errors","tag-glaring","tag-holiday","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-no","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-peaking","tag-peeked","tag-product","tag-selling","tag-shoppers","tag-sic","tag-sold","tag-spelling","tag-spotted","tag-the","tag-there","tag-until","tag-warehouse","tag-with","tag-xmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}