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Misspelling ‘School’ is Embarrassing

Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina briefly had a SHCOOL zone, thanks to a contractor’s gaffe.

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From YahooNews‘ Brett Michael Dykes (“Cringe-inducing typo outside N.C. school“):

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A road contractor hired to paint the word “school” on a freshly paved stretch of road near Southern Guilford High School in North Carolina rendered the traffic area in question a “shcool” zone.

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This isn’t the first such mishap on record. Last year, for instance, a Miami-area road crew offered the variant spelling of “scohol,” while in 2007, a team in Kalamazoo, Mich., managed the same “h” and “c” reversal.

I’m reminded of the incident a couple years back when DC’s Major League Baseball franchise took the field wearing jerseys emblazoned with “NATINALS.”  That’s probably worse, in that it’s a big league outfit and there should have been a dozen levels of quality control, whereas these involve fellows who paint lettering on streets.

Still, embarrassing.

UPDATE:  Here’s a photo of the infamous “NATINALS” jersey.  Alas, no, it wasn’t a simple alignment issue wherein the button flap covered the O.

One response to “Misspelling ‘School’ is Embarrassing”

  1. Geez.  Is that really true about the “Natinals”?  Wow.  Looks like it is.
    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2009/04/washington_natinals.html
    But in all fairness, the missing O on those two players jerseys may be under the fly overlap.  Amazingly boneheaded, but not unbelievably boneheaded. Say, a 5.2 on the boneheaded scale.