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The road sign above, found at a fire station in West Sussex, England, is obviously wrong. It should've said: Keep Klear for Klown Kar.
If you send text messages with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, you may have noticed the annoying autocorrect feature that guesses what word you are trying to say – and is sometimes hilariously wrong. Damn You Autocorrect is a site that collects screencaps of these often incomprehensible assumptions. Some text may be NSFW. Link -via Metafilter
A billboard bragging about the schools in South Bend, Indiana was erected without anyone noticing a certain misspelled word, until Lee MacMillan took a picture and posted it on Facebook.
Responsibility for the spelling error has been claimed by the Blue Waters Group. The company does work for the city of South Bend’s redevelopment commission to promote the city.
“I feel terrible. It’s a mistake we made and we’re guilty of it, and responsible for it. and we take full responsibility for the error,” said Patrick Strickler, president of the Blue Waters Group.
“Four people looked at it, eyeballed it and didn’t see the mistake, and those people all work for me,” Strickler explained. “We take responsibility for it. We simply blew it. We did not see the missing “L.”
The billboard has since been taken down. Link -via The Daily What
(Image credit: Lee MacMillan)
Way to go cool college students of UCSD 
via Criggo and Miss Cellania
Capri, carpi, what’s the difference? Apparently, about 400 miles. Here’s what happened to a couple of Swedish tourists who mistyped the destination in their GPS:
Officials say a Swedish couple looking for the pristine waters of the popular island of Capri ended some 400 miles (660 kilometers) away in the northern industrial town of Carpi after misspelling the destination on their car’s GPS.
Angelo Giovannini, a spokesman for the Carpi town hall, near Modena, said Tuesday the couple drove into the main square last week and asked the local tourist office how to reach Capri’s famed Blue Grotto sea cave.
The Grant Building, one of the downtown skyscrapers in Pittsburgh has an aviation beacon that instead of flashing at regular intervals, was set up to flash in Morse code the letters that spell "Pittsburgh".
This year, Tom Stepleton, a recreational pilot familiar with Morse code noticed that the letters transmitted by the beacon spelled… "PITETSBKRRH."
The one-minute video clip above shows the sequence. The city has tried to fix the problem, but after the first attempt, the beacon is now flashing … "TPEBTSAURGH."
More on the story at the Pitetsbkrrh … oops, sorry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Link
– via gadling
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I know, I know, people who blog in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones or something like that. And though we’re typographically-challenged here on Neatorama, we just can’t resist this news from Channel 7 News Fox WSVN TV:
After painters misspelled the word "school" on the road, the sign has become the talk of the town, especially for students who attend class nearby.
Students who attend Goulds Elementary School have no problem spelling the word "school," however, whoever painted the word on the pavement spelled the word incorrectly.
Children who are learning to read and write are recommending that whoever painted the misspelled word go back to school.
Link – via Dave Barry’s Blog
Photo: Bree Bailey [Flickr]
We’ve had our share of typsos here on Neatorama, so we understand how misspellings can happen even to the best of us. But misspelling the name of this lake in Webster, Massachusetts? Why, it’s inconceivable how anyone couldn’t spell it correctly:
In an embarrassing mistake, officials in Massachusetts have been forced to admit that some road signs pointing to Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg have spelling mistakes in them.
The typos, which are completely baffling considering how easy it is to spell Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, were revealed by a local newspaper, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, which has been covering the misspelling scandal since 2003.
