Author Topic: And we thought we’d find typos only in newspapers and books!  (Read 5250 times)

Joe Carillo

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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. school
By 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.
« Last Edit: August 14, 2010, 04:29:23 PM by Joe Carillo »

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Re: And we thought we’d find typos only in newspapers and books!
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2010, 02:27:45 AM »
The sign painter probably had a very mean dose of scotch whiskey while working on the road. hahahahaha!!!