Billboard spelling error creates embarrassment

[markomalley]

This gem from the South Bend Tribune:

SOUTH BEND — If you ever wondered how much difference just one letter can make when it comes to a message, ask the thousands of people who drove by a digital billboard near the intersection of Ironwood and State Road 23 between Thursday and Monday morning.

The ad urged people to go to the “southbendon.com” website for a look at the “15 best things about our pubic schools.” That’s right, the billboard said “(redacted)” instead of “public” schools. The letter “L” had been left out of the word public.
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(Please note that I redacted the potentially offending word)

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Comment: this is a wonderful advertisement that demonstrates why one would not want to send his/her children to public schools.

 

[St_Francis]

Yeah, but you forgot to redact the first instance of it

I love linguistic bloopers!

 

[awdbawl]

Actually, that billboard blooper “tells it like it is” about the gov’t. warehouses called “schools.”

 

[IgnatiusDaughtr]

I once made this exact same mistake writing a paper for an ed class is college! There was a portion about uniforms in that paper as well, and I accidentally left the “r” out of the word “shirt”

Thank God for roommates who help you proof read papers before you hand them in! There are certain mistakes that spell check just doesn’t catch