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Dorset Echo [UK]
17 Oct 2007
Mum's not the word on tattoo
By Juliette Astrup
A Poole woman who thought she had "Mum" tattooed in Chinese symbols on her back has spoken of her shock at being told it actually read "Friend Come Hell." Mum-of-one Charlene Williams, of Canford Heath, had the tattoo done on her lower back four years ago. [...]
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/10/19/tatt-s-not-nice-dear-89520-19975734/
The Mirror [UK]
Dorset Echo [UK]
17 Oct 2007
Mum's not the word on tattoo
By Juliette Astrup
A Poole woman who thought she had "Mum" tattooed in Chinese symbols on her back has spoken of her shock at being told it actually read "Friend Come Hell." Mum-of-one Charlene Williams, of Canford Heath, had the tattoo done on her lower back four years ago. [...]
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/10/19/tatt-s-not-nice-dear-89520-19975734/
The Mirror [UK]
19 October 2007
Girl's 'evil' Chinese tattoo
A teenager who had "mum" tattooed on her back in Chinese letters was horrified to find it really said: "Friend from hell." [...]
[See the Dorset Echo for a photograph of her tattoo. Will future versions of this report describe it as saying "Fiend from hell"?]
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article369654.ece
The Sun [UK]
22 October 2007
Tatt's ink-redibly unfunny
By JAMIE PYATT
PROUD Vince Mattingley showed off his Chinese writing tattoo spelling his name for 26 years – until someone pointed out if actually spelt COCA-COLA. [...]
http://www.hanzismatter.com/2007/10/tatts-ink-redibly-unfunny.html
Hanzi Smatter
25 October 2007
Tatt's ink-redibly unfunny
By Tian
[In his blog "dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture," Tian reprints the Sun article and states that the two characters mean "crooked official."]
Girl's 'evil' Chinese tattoo
A teenager who had "mum" tattooed on her back in Chinese letters was horrified to find it really said: "Friend from hell." [...]
[See the Dorset Echo for a photograph of her tattoo. Will future versions of this report describe it as saying "Fiend from hell"?]
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article369654.ece
The Sun [UK]
22 October 2007
Tatt's ink-redibly unfunny
By JAMIE PYATT
PROUD Vince Mattingley showed off his Chinese writing tattoo spelling his name for 26 years – until someone pointed out if actually spelt COCA-COLA. [...]
http://www.hanzismatter.com/2007/10/tatts-ink-redibly-unfunny.html
Hanzi Smatter
25 October 2007
Tatt's ink-redibly unfunny
By Tian
[In his blog "dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture," Tian reprints the Sun article and states that the two characters mean "crooked official."]
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