Archive for the ‘signage typos’ Category

Flavore

Location:  What’s the Scoop restaurant, Primos, PA.
Typo: MisspellingFlavore (although perhaps that’s Italian for flavor?)
Categories: Restaurant, Sign
Typo spotted by:  Lisa Wetherby
Typo Capture Method: Camera Phone

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They knew enough to double a consonant, but they doubled the wrong one.

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As it says in the text boxes, this poster, seen at Wilson Farms, has the foreign punctuation wrong. Why give it any foreign punctuation at all, if you’re not going to do it right?

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Key Bank gives away stuff when you open an account. I know someone got an iPod a while back. I don’t think they’re giving away cannons….

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Should be “You can check with OUR…”

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