Made with the same care the Bay Birdge is being built with.
Made with the same care the Bay Birdge is being built with.
Milpitas being invaded with millipedes.
You would think that the news editor would have gone over this story with a fine tooth comb before posting it.
Now if they spelled it “Milliways”, that would have been creepy...
I think that’s from the Algonquin for “many delicious flat bread sandwiches”.
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! : )
He who is without typos, let him cast the first scone.
I’m gonna drive over there just to see how this idiots misspelled Milpinas
Um......
English as a Second Language is common among state workers in California now and it’s entirely normal to see phonetic spellings...which are usually wrong, but do sound the way they say it.
Just one more charming aspect of being here in the “New America”.
I worked for the State of Alaska DOT for 25 years and we had one sign sent from the vendor that read: BIEK XING. It was never installed, since our guys could actually read.
California actually has what is probably the best highway signage of any state in which I have driven. Highway signs in California keep drivers aware of what highway they are on, what direction they are going, and how far it is to communities and route junctions down the road. In California, I don’t recall ever having gotten lost because of the lack of highway signs or trying to follow signs that were ambiguous, misleading or confusing.
In my experience, New Hampshire is the worst state for highway signage, followed by Maine, Pennsylvania, Texas and Nevada. States in which I have experienced good signage include Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, Vermont and Virginia.
Because of the dumbing down of education that has been going on in the public schools for decades, it’s pleasantly surprising that misspellings on highway, street, and other traffic signs aren’t more common than they seem to be. After all, the dedicated public servants that make the signs are most often products of those dumbed down schools.
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