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Ariane Sohrabi-Shiraz & Ellie Forbes

Tesco shoppers in stitches over awkward Welsh translation blunder on store sign

Tesco shoppers were left in stitches after the supermarket put up a sign with a wrongly translated word on it – for which it later apologised.

The popular supermarket chain had put up a sign in a store in Wales pointing customers to where the squash was – but it turns out the word they used was the one for the sports game, not the drink.

The sign for 'sboncen' was put up in Tesco's Swansea store, pointing its customers towards the cordial. However, in Welsh sboncen means the sports game.

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