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Parents Question Misspelled 'School' Sign
local10 (Miami, FL) ^ | 10/27/11 | Staff

Posted on 10/28/2011 8:24:43 AM PDT by DFG

A misspelled sign near an elementary school is raising eyebrows and leading to questions from parents.

A Local 10 viewer sent us the photo of this sign, which spells "scohol" at the corner of 50th Street and Pine Island Road in Lauderhill. He noticed it while picking up his son from school Thursday.

"Glad he didn't see it," said Christopher Robinson. Robinson thinks it's a bad lesson for all kids. "You know, especially after helping him with spelling and his homework," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at local10.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banyan; lauderhill; miami; scohol
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1 posted on 10/28/2011 8:24:45 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG; CaptainAmiigaf

We recently received a press release about the Mentoring Program by students on the “High School Honor Role”


2 posted on 10/28/2011 8:27:28 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: DFG
Misspellers of the World......UNTIE!
3 posted on 10/28/2011 8:27:29 AM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I ouTha)
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To: DFG

And now you know why they don’t want kids learning to sound out words.


4 posted on 10/28/2011 8:28:56 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: DFG; RedBroward
Common mistake, apparently!
5 posted on 10/28/2011 8:29:48 AM PDT by AnyStreetFL (www.AnyStreet.org - Conservative Community Organizing, ACORN without the evil)
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To: DFG

While I agree proof reading is dead, it looks more like a typo than just blatant misspelling.


6 posted on 10/28/2011 8:29:50 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: DFG

7 posted on 10/28/2011 8:30:12 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: DFG

“scohol” - sounds like a brand of vodka


8 posted on 10/28/2011 8:31:51 AM PDT by NativeSon
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts

Our company caters to the entertainment biz and one of the owners of those studios until this day spells “definitely” with an A’. Even from the e-mails to our company as of last week...


9 posted on 10/28/2011 8:32:08 AM PDT by max americana
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To: DFG

I work with a chronic misspeller. “Sanaca” instead of “Seneca”, “Correlate” instead of “Collate”, “Seratoga” instead of “Saratoga”, that kind of thing.


10 posted on 10/28/2011 8:37:23 AM PDT by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
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To: NativeSon

DA!


11 posted on 10/28/2011 8:39:07 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: DFG

Dyslexia no doubt.


12 posted on 10/28/2011 8:40:37 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Menehune56

“Dyslexia no doubt.”

Mezzican sign painters.


13 posted on 10/28/2011 8:42:52 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: NativeSon

“You vodka lovers, try our new triple-filtered hangover-free SCOHOL!”

“You’ll thanks us in the morning and even leave cabfare on the bureau.”

(Enjoy our beverage responsibly.)

;^)


15 posted on 10/28/2011 8:45:19 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: elcid1970

“You’ll thanks us....”

GEEZ.........!


16 posted on 10/28/2011 8:46:49 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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17 posted on 10/28/2011 8:47:42 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts

i saw a street sign for traffice rules at a state university once that said:

“buses accepted”

when the context demanded “excepted.”


18 posted on 10/28/2011 8:49:49 AM PDT by ken21
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To: ken21
Triple whammy......


19 posted on 10/28/2011 8:59:27 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Obama Voters: Jose Baez wants YOU for his next jury pool.......)
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To: Texas Songwriter
Misspellers of the World......UNTIE!

Shouldn't that be Mispellers of the World......UNTIE! . . . just sayin' . . .

20 posted on 10/28/2011 8:59:38 AM PDT by laweeks
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