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Understandable... English is no longer the primary language here in Florida...
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While it does look bad especially since it's an ad for a educational institution it is a common (the most common in my experience) mistake. For 16 years I did proof and QA for a printing facility. I would see this on a fairly regular basis and I catch it often here on the web. An interesting thing is that your mind will fill in the missing letter or correct the spelling as you read. Someone posted a thread with a typed doc where the spelling got increasingly worse, eventually getting to the point where there were more wrong letters than right and yet it was still readable. Quite possably most people who see this sign will not catch the error. I didn't the first time I red it.
Did you catch mine
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That's a possibility. The first, second, or third one?While it does look bad especially since it's an ad for a educational institution it is a common (the most common in my experience) mistake. For 16 years I did proof and QA for a printing facility. I would see this on a fairly regular basis and I catch it often here on the web. An interesting thing is that your mind will fill in the missing letter or correct the spelling as you read. Someone posted a thread with a typed doc where the spelling got increasingly worse, eventually getting to the point where there were more wrong letters than right and yet it was still readable. Quite possably most people who see this sign will not catch the error. I didn't the first time I red it.
Did you catch mine
Spelling mistakes bug me to no end--especially on restaurant menus. I'm not
talking the menu of the day that's printed at will but the ones that they've
actually gone to the trouble to laminate. It's just annoying that they're
trying to sell you something but haven't taken the time to properly proof read
it.
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I didn't catch it the first time either, and I also don't think most people would unless they were looking for an error. It's pretty funny though -- certainly a mistake that should have been caught.
It reminds me of this little goodie that makes its way around the inter-webs every few years... "Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. "online at http://www.theFrankes.com
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Paul and Cman you caught me. My bad. I didn't notice the spelling error but my last last sentence says " I red it" instead of I read it.
I am a lousy speller and an even worse typist so I am quite forgiving of others faux pas.Comment
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I noticed a factual error in the story.
"The billboard was not the only spelling error by an educational institution. Crews misspelled "school" in a crosswalk in front of Goulds Elementary School in Miami, on June 25, 2009."
Crosswalk marking, at least around here, is done by the city, not the school. But don't get me started on sloppy reporting, both in print and on the air.Bob
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A couple of years ago our countys school board issued their yearly calendar with 31 days in each month.Comment
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It was unknown who was responsible for the spelling mistake: the school, the designers of the billboard or the person who put up the sign.
That is logical, blame the guy that pasted the preprinted strips of paper on the billboard for the content!
Don, aka Pappy,
Wise men talk because they have something to say,
Fools because they have to say something.
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