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catlover79 · 08-12-2010, 03:14 PM

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By Brett Michael Dykes
Wed Aug 11, 12:29 pm ET

Well, here's something to make your old English teacher gasp in horror: 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.

But fear not for the (surely confused) youth of Greensboro! The contractor, a company called Traffic Markings, has already corrected the error. Here's visual evidence, courtesy of local TV station WXII.

WXII had some fun with the typo on the air too:

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.

Chalk it all up to a bad day's wrok.

catlover79 · 08-12-2010, 03:15 PM

Hey, my shcool is gooder than your shcool!!!

PZelda · 08-12-2010, 03:37 PM

Oh no.

Totally unrelated, but it made me think of the sign my sister saw when she went to a McDonald's in the wee hours (before they started serving breakfast).

Bet that would have enraged that Toledo lady even more...

catlover79 · 08-12-2010, 04:00 PM

Yeah, probably.

08-12-2010, 03:14 PM	#1
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,392	Cringe-inducing typo outside N.C. school http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot...gle-photograph By Brett Michael Dykes Wed Aug 11, 12:29 pm ET Well, here's something to make your old English teacher gasp in horror: 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. But fear not for the (surely confused) youth of Greensboro! The contractor, a company called Traffic Markings, has already corrected the error. Here's visual evidence, courtesy of local TV station WXII. WXII had some fun with the typo on the air too: 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. Chalk it all up to a bad day's wrok. Attached Images
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08-12-2010, 03:15 PM	#2
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,392	Hey, my shcool is gooder than your shcool!!!

08-12-2010, 04:00 PM	#4
catlover79 God Bless Val Forum Addict Join Date: May 29, 2006 Location: Bewitched in Ohio Posts: 70,392	Yeah, probably.