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Funny English Errors and Insights is a fresh collection of unconsciously humorous uses and misuses of English, to be published in October 2010. To celebrate the lead-up to the book's launch, we will be holding regular competitions. Here are the details of our next competition.
Funny English Errors' "Become a Facebook Fan" Competition
*** This competition is now closed. Come back soon for a new competition.***
Win a copy of the popular vocabulary-building program, Ultimate Vocabulary! Plus, we'll throw in $100 cash!
Prize 1: Ultimate Vocabulary
Ultimate Vocabulary is an easy-to-use program that can drastically increase the width and depth of your English vocabulary. Read a review of Ultimate Vocabulary here. The software is ideal for students, professionals, and anyone else who wants to build their vocabulary for success. No more fumbling to find the right word or making an embarrassing funny English error of your own. You can even expand your vocabulary for the purposes of entering and winning competitions!
Prize 2: $100 cash (AUD)
The winner will also receive 100 Australian dollars.
How to win
For you chance at winning, simply do this:
1. Login to www.facebook.com
2. Go to the Funny English Errors Facebook Page
3. If you're not already a fan, click "Become a Fan"
4. After you've become a fan, post a message on www.funny-english-errors.com or email us your comment
Examples
Examples of the kinds of message you might want to post are:
- A funny English error you've heard or read lately (or a blunder you've made yourself!)
- Your favourite funny English error you've read on our website
- Your favourite book of exam howlers and other compilations of funny English mistakes
- A website you've found that also lists funny English, or "Engrish", mistakes
- A tip on how to write and speak better English
- A word of encouragement
Let your imagination flow! Good luck!
Official Rules
Amended 14 January 2010 and 25 January 2010 to comply with Facebook policy:
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1 Agreement
By entering the Funny English Errors "Become a Facebook Fan" competition ("the Competition"), you agree to the following terms and conditions ("Official Rules"). You must read and understand these Official Rules; if you do not understand them, then do not enter the Competition.
2 How to enter
To enter the Competition, you must:
(a) join or login to www.facebook.com
(b) go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Funny-English-Errors/195248589205
(c) Click "Become a Fan", if you're not a fan already
(d) Post a message on www.funny-english-errors.com or email us your comment the Funny English Errors "wall"
3 Selection of winner
There will be one winner. The winner will be the person who posts the best comment on the Funny English Errors website or who emails us the best comment "wall". In deciding the "best" comment, the judges will consider: grammar, spelling, literary merit, originality, and creativity. The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. The Competition is a game of skill. Chance plays no part in determining the winner.
4 The prize
The winner will receive a free copy of the popular vocabulary-building software, Ultimate Vocabulary (value $67 USD) and $100 Australian dollars. The method of payment may, at the promoter’s discretion, be by bank cheque, money order, money transfer, direct deposit, electronic funds transfer, PayPal, or some other method decided by the promoter.
5 Duration
The competition starts at 9.00 am, 11 January 2010 (AEDST). The competition ends at 11.59 pm, 11 March 2010 (AEDST).
6 Restrictions
(a) No age restrictions Must be 18 or older
There are no age restrictions, but if you are younger than 18, then your parent or guardian must consent to these Official Rules for you. The Competition is open only to people aged 18 and above.
(b) Employees etc of promoter cannot enter
Employees, contractors, and family members of the author and publisher are ineligible.
(c) Geographic restrictions
The Competition is open to residents of Australia, New Zeland, the United Kingdom, and other countries where the Competition is legal (but not residents of a country embargoed by the United States). You must make sure you are not breaching any laws in your country of residence regarding the legality of the Competition. We will not be held responsible for anyone entering the Competition unlawfully. If in any doubt, you should check with the relevant authorities in your country.
(d) Can enter more than once
You may submit more than one entry, so long as you:
think about what you're writing
keep your entries on topic
do not submit the same entry more than once
(e) No objectionable material
Your entry must not include objectionable material or infringe the rights (including intellectual property rights) of any third party
(f) Entry must be in English
English is the only language in which you may submit your entry.
7 Free to enter
We charge you nothing to enter this competition. But you might incur other expenses outside our control, such as the cost of accessing the Internet. Such expenses connected to your participation in the Competition are your responsibility.
8 Notification and publication of winnerWe will contact the winner by email through Facebook. We may also put the winner's name, entry, and location on our winners page.
9 Winner to supply contact details
If you win, you must claim your prize by giving us your name, phone number, and mailing address, and any other details we need in order to send you your prize. We may need you to prove your identity and residency. You must claim your prize within 7 days of being notified that you have won. If you do not claim your prize within 7 days, we may declare the prize forfeited and award the prize to someone else.
10 Entries become our property
We will own your entry. All of the rights (including intellectual property rights) in your entry belong to us and you hereby assign any rights you may have to us. This includes all copyright (present or future), other intellectual property rights, and rights of ownership. You agree to do all things necessary (which may include signing documents) to transfer these rights to us. You consent to our doing anything, or omitting to do anything, that infringes your moral rights in your entry.
11 No liabilityWe will not be liable for any loss at all (including, without limitation, special, indirect, incidental, or consequential loss, or loss of profits), damage, expense, or injury that is suffered (however so caused) in connection with the Competition or prize, except for liability that we cannot legally exclude. Where we cannot legally exclude liability, our liability is limited to our minimum obligations required by law, which may include, at our election, our replacement of the goods, supply of equivalent goods, re-supply of the services, payment of the cost of having the goods or services replaced or re-supplied, the repair of goods, or the cost of having the goods repaired.
12 Indemnity
By entering the Competition, you indemnify us against all costs (including legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, awards, demands, judgments, damages, proceedings, and any other liability whatsoever, wholly or partly arising directly or indirectly in connection with the Competition or prize.
13 Privacy
We do not sell or pass-on email addresses. You consent to our publishing on our website your entry, comments, first name and the initial letter of your surname, and your home state or territory, unless you expressly tell us that you do not wish us to publish these details.
14 Severability
If a term in the Official Rules is invalid or unenforceable, then that term will be "read down" (if it can) so that it will be valid and enforceable. If that isn't possible, then the term will, so much that it is capable, be severed from the rest of the terms to the extent of the invalidity or unenforceability, without affecting the remaining terms.
15 Governing law
The laws of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) shall govern the interpretation and enforcement of these Official Rules; you hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the ACT’s courts and waive any right to claim that those courts are an inconvenient forum.
16 Variation
We can change, amend, delete, or add to these Official Rules without notice, at any time, and you shall be bound by those changes. We will post any changes on the Competition website. Before you submit your entry, check the website to make sure you are aware of the terms.
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