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Misspelled Milipitas (sic) Sign on Highway
NBC Bay Area ^ | Thursday, May 9, 2013 | Lisa Fernandez and Mariane Favro

Posted on 05/09/2013 12:09:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway

There are typos. And then there are typos.

Caltrans could have sure used spellcheck when putting up a new green highway sign Wednesday night on the northbound side of Interstate Highway 880.

It's misspelled.

Instead of directing people to Milpitas off state route 237, the sign directs them to "Milipitas," with an extra "i."

An alert motorist with excellent spelling skills notified NBC Bay Area about the mistake on Thursday. NBC Bay Area then alerted Caltrans, who said the news agency was the first to report it, according to spokesman Bernard Walik.

Before noon, the misspelling was covered in white. The sign will be fixed within two weeks. He said there would be no cost to taxpayers, because the contractor who made the mistake will have to remedy it on his own.

This is not the first misspelled roadsign. Google images is full of sings with extra "t's" and missing "e's." School was spelled "shool" and "temporarily" was spelled with two "ll's."

Check out some in these images below.


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Made with the same care the Bay Birdge is being built with.

1 posted on 05/09/2013 12:09:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; CounterCounterCulture

Milpitas being invaded with millipedes.


2 posted on 05/09/2013 12:10:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Google images is full of sings...

You would think that the news editor would have gone over this story with a fine tooth comb before posting it.

3 posted on 05/09/2013 12:12:33 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

I hate it when the road sings. We have to turn the radio way up!


4 posted on 05/09/2013 12:13:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Sarah is right.)
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To: nickcarraway

Now if they spelled it “Milliways”, that would have been creepy...


5 posted on 05/09/2013 12:13:41 PM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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“Milliways”

If Millie weighs 237 she needs to go on a diet!


6 posted on 05/09/2013 12:17:22 PM PDT by 21twelve ("We've got the guns, and we got the numbers" adapted and revised from Jim M.)
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To: nickcarraway

When I left Erie, PA 25 years ago, I had seen a sign almost every day for years that got under my skin. On my way out for the last day, I stopped in the business and asked “ How much did you pay for that sign out front?” the guy said a lot. Why? I said “Get your money back. You’ve been screwed” He went out with me and looked up at the sign that said “Baber Shop”. For 15 years nobody had noticed it.


7 posted on 05/09/2013 12:17:42 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: nickcarraway

I think that’s from the Algonquin for “many delicious flat bread sandwiches”.


8 posted on 05/09/2013 12:18:03 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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9 posted on 05/09/2013 12:20:49 PM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: nickcarraway

The way I learned to care about spelling on the job was through nuns who would make me rewrite a whole essay to correct any spelling or punctuation errors. Ouch, needless to say! : )


10 posted on 05/09/2013 12:22:10 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: nickcarraway; mikrofon; martin_fierro

He who is without typos, let him cast the first scone.


11 posted on 05/09/2013 12:23:32 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Spellbound.)
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Gov. Brown on Bay Bridge Bolt Problem: S--- Happens
12 posted on 05/09/2013 12:24:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SaraJohnson

Yikes. How many times did that happen to you?


13 posted on 05/09/2013 12:25:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I’m gonna drive over there just to see how this idiots misspelled Milpinas


14 posted on 05/09/2013 12:26:02 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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Millipitas:


15 posted on 05/09/2013 12:29:53 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (From scones to pitas.)
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Better do it at Sunday 2:00. That is a pretty Trafficy place, right?


16 posted on 05/09/2013 12:30:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: andyk

You beat me to the idea. See post 15.


17 posted on 05/09/2013 12:30:56 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (From scones to pitas.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Lulz


18 posted on 05/09/2013 12:34:24 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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"This is not the first misspelled roadsign. Google images is full of sings "

Um......

19 posted on 05/09/2013 12:41:36 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: kingu

or a fine tooth coam.


20 posted on 05/09/2013 12:44:23 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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