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Old 08-11-2010, 12:58 PM
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Roadworkers Misspell School on roadway

Of course this has to make the headlines....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-10936604


Crews painted "shcool" on the approach road to Southern Guilford High School.

The road had been recently repaved and crews were working to mark out the school zones.

The company which was responsible said it had "made a mistake" and it would be fixed. A spokesperson said the paint was "interim paint" that is used before the final paint is applied.

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Old 08-11-2010, 01:04 PM
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Some shcolar missed his shceduled English class because he was shcmoozing with some shclumps.
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Old 08-11-2010, 01:31 PM
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Wouldn't be the first time.....







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Old 08-11-2010, 01:46 PM
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Good thing those NC guys aren't tattoo artists . . .
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That is embarrassing, but let he who has never sent out anything with a typo cast the first stone.

People often misspell the name of my county, which seems to have an extra vowel that people tend to miss. A few years ago, some workers installed a new sign for the county office building across the street from my office. The sign had the same misspelling. I approached the crew and asked whether they saw anything unusual about the sign. The words were hardly out of my mouth before the crew chief spotted the error. He said a four-letter word starting with "s" and ending with "t" and started taking the sign down. That typo was not as embarrassing as "shcool", but it is says something about the proof-reading process that it had gone through several sets of eyes before anyone spotted it.
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Old 08-11-2010, 02:55 PM
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Look like it's splled right to me.
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Old 08-11-2010, 03:16 PM
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They paint signs, they are not novelists.
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Old 08-12-2010, 08:58 AM
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They paint signs, they are not novelists.
Wrong, they aren't proofreaders.
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Old 08-12-2010, 09:47 AM
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It gives me great pleasure to learn this morning that NC is one of the states receiving a big chunk of the teacher and firemen relief money just passed by Congress. Perhaps they can make sure their third graders and teachers continue their relentless pursuit of spelling proficiency.

NC or DC or NYC: SSDD

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/08/10/house.funding.bill/index.html
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Could this be a result of "no child left behind"?
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Old 08-12-2010, 05:16 PM
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Everyone knows that the correct spelling is "SKOOL".
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Could this be a result of "no child left behind"?
Possibly. When you insist on dragging those that cannot make it, all they do is slow down the group and not let the slow ones be weeded out so everybody is slower but nobody is left behind.
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Possibly. When you insist on dragging those that cannot make it, all they do is slow down the group and not let the slow ones be weeded out so everybody is slower but nobody is left behind.
Hope you never become one of the slow ones.
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Old 08-12-2010, 07:35 PM
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Some shcolar missed his shceduled English class because he was shcmoozing with some shclumps.
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