Posted on 09/21/2010 9:36:46 AM PDT by Inappropriate Laughter
At a recent facility opening for our hospital system, the sign vendor was asked to make signs pointing new team members to parking. The signs read:
Opening Team Memeber Parking
They had 750 of these signs made up with the same error. Needless to say, there was some embarrassment on the part of senior leadership. There’s no accounting for good editors anymore. Spell check or bust, right?
Spelling is not one of the 15 things.
Department of Pubic safety is the best resume error.
Okay, where to start?
1. That is about the spelling proficiency we’d expect from our public schools after dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the teachers’ unions (I mean, classrooms).
2. Many teachers certainly do check out the pubic schools. As evidenced by increasing articles of teachers viewing students as potential sexual appetizers for their own gratification.
3. Way to go, NEA and AFT! This poster sums it all up for most of us when it comes to public education.
If this had been in California or Massachusetts, I’m not sure it would have been “accidental”
Several years ago, our county Board of Realtors had thousands of Tee shirts made.
The dimwit who proofread the final draft let them print
Board of “Relators”. Thousands and thousands had to be thrown away.
Several years ago when the children were still in high school we went to a function at the school.
There by the front door was a large sign with large letters
“SAVE THE ENVIERNMENT”
Or noticed!
Honest, I’m not making this up... Back in the early 1980’s I opened up my own CPA office. I had a sign painter paint a beautiful 2 foot X 3 foot sign with 3 inch high black lettering, shadowed in gray. It looked fabulous, except for one thing.. she left the “L” out of public on both sides of the sign....
LOL!
Home School
I'm from central Delaware, and that's exactly the way they pronounce it here. I used to be a typesetter and got copy for an advertisement from an electrical parts-supply store that listed one of its products as "War King." I asked the printer whether it should be "Wire" King. "Yes," the printer sighed. "He spells it like he says it."
If the story had not led off with South Bend, my first guess would have been the Tampa, FL area....given all the teacher/student sex scandals. I guess that would have made it somewhat Freudian.
Someone ran spellcheck and found that word to be acceptable. Likely the same situation with public/pubic. Computers are only as intelligent as we program them to be, so when trying to proofread for context, humans still reign supreme.
BWAAAAHAAAAAHAAA! That’s GREAT!
Board of “Relators”.
A lot of people seem to pronounce Realtor as Real-a-tor. Maybe he was concentrating on where to put the 'a'.
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