I don’t think we can blame this one on the influence of too much short-cut texting on the mobile phone.
What do you think?
Here’s the story from Yahoo!Cringe-inducing typo outside N.C. schoolBy Brett Michael Dykes
Well, here's something to make your old English teacher gasp in horror: A road contractor hired to paint the word “school” on a freshly paved stretch of road near Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina rendered the traffic area in question a “school” zone.
But fear not for the (surely confused) youth of Greensboro! The contractor, a company called Traffic Markings, has already corrected the error. Here's visual evidence, courtesy of local TV station WXII.
WXII had some fun with the typo on the air too:
This isn’t the first such mishap on record. Last year, for instance, a Miami-area road crew offered the variant spelling of “scohol,” while in 2007, a team in Kalamazoo, Mich., managed the same “h” and “c” reversal.
Chalk it all up to a bad day’s wrok.
