# Mispelt sines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460 "2010-06-08T19:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/21 "2010-06-08T22:19:50Z")
“No drinking alcohol on premises. Our licenses doesn’t allow it” Sign in a liquor/convenience store/ice cream/pizza shop. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/22 "2010-06-08T22:22:09Z")
For some reason, several local flower shops like to advertise their specials on “BOKAYS” I die a little inside each time I pass one. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/23 "2010-06-08T23:19:57Z")
When private businesses do it, that’s one thing; but I used to drive by a freeway onramp with the warning: NO PED XIGN ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/24 "2010-06-08T23:43:36Z")
There is a specialty garage near my home that has painted, in large letters on the building, their one area of expertise in the auto field: ALINEMENTS I will never, for love nor money, take a car to this place. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/25 "2010-06-09T00:05:28Z")
> [@mrklutz](#): > > Not misspelled, but could benefit from some punctuation… there’s a sign along a road north of San Francisco that reads “CAUTION PEDESTRIANS SLIPPERY WHEN WET” One of my favorites in this vein was a sign near the Marine guard booth in the American Mission in Geneva: “WARNING: BADGES REQUIRED TO BE VISIBLE BEYOND THIS POINT!” Cool: I always wanted to be invisible. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/26 "2010-06-09T00:09:50Z")
One thing that’s extremely common on “Arab stores” in poor inner city neighborhoods around here is “FULL LINE OF GROC” among the cacophony of crude handpainted signs on the building. Seldom “FULL LINE OF GROCERIES”; it’s usually just “GROC”. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/27 "2010-06-09T00:24:26Z")
A menu at dining hall once had pie listed as “hoemmade pie.” ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/28 "2010-06-09T01:26:30Z")
Went to my 10YO’s elementary school graduation last night. It was held in the gym at the high school. There are professionally-made signs up around the gym from their sponsor-businesses. I wonder how our local pharmacy feels about its name being mis-spelled on their sign? The pharmacy is Michel’s. But the sign says “Michael’s”. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/29 "2010-06-09T01:43:00Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Banner at a nearby restaurant: _“Re-Grand Opening!!”_ There used to be a pottery shop around here with a banner out front advertising its “GRAN OPPENING”…the banner was up for at least two years. That’s \*really \*Gran!!! ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/30 "2010-06-09T01:46:35Z")
Sign on the exterior of a defunct and condemned old highway motel: Now under New Menengment! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/31 "2010-06-09T01:50:27Z")
The post office near me has a sign I think is misspelled. It says: To Insure Privacy Please Turn of Cell Phones When Coming to the Desk Shouldn’t it be “ensure”? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/32 "2010-06-09T02:06:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The post office near me has a sign I think is misspelled. It says: > > To Insure Privacy > Please Turn of Cell Phones > When Coming to the Desk > Shouldn’t it be “ensure”? No, no, “ensure” is a complete nutritional supplement available in three delicious flavours. 🙂 Actually, the problem is ‘of’. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/33 "2010-06-09T02:10:17Z")
There used to be a regulation, green and white, city issued sign when leaving the north side of Nashville on US31W that read _Goodlettsville Citty Limits_. It wasn’t there very long. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/34 "2010-06-09T02:20:18Z")
At my neighborhood grocery store there is a sign that tickles me every time I see it. I want to tell the person in charge of making the cardboard signs that it’s wrong…but then I wouldn’t get to laugh every time I see it. This is over the bench close to the entrance: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellabrigido/4683543541/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellabrigido/4683543541/) ---
**Author:** ![Obeseus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbce88/32.png) [@Obeseus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obeseus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/35 "2010-06-09T02:41:00Z")
One I’ve seen fairly frequently is ‘pizzaria.’ ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/36 "2010-06-09T03:23:38Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The post office near me has a sign I think is misspelled. It says: > > To Insure Privacy > Please Turn of Cell Phones > When Coming to the Desk > Shouldn’t it be “ensure”? Yes, insure, ensure, and assure are all different words with different although related meanings. I’m in Quality Assurance. I think we are just very honest about how effective we are. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/37 "2010-06-09T03:37:38Z")
More a punctuation error than spelling but on a beauty shop nearby: “Manicure’s and Pedicure’s” That 's thing drives me crazy! Meaning the addition of the apostrophe when it’s not needed. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/38 "2010-06-09T04:01:25Z")
[QUOTE=Rushgeekgirl] At my neighborhood grocery store there is a sign that tickles me every time I see it. I want to tell the person in charge of making the cardboard signs that it’s wrong…but then I wouldn’t get to laugh every time I see it. [/QUOTE] At least it’s not a [Desitinated](http://www.desitin.com/) area. Wonder what they do if a customer decides to light up there? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/39 "2010-06-09T08:44:44Z")
> [@velvetjones](#): > > More a punctuation error than spelling but on a beauty shop nearby: “Manicure’s and Pedicure’s” > > That 's thing drives me crazy! > > Meaning the addition of the apostrophe when it’s not needed. oh hell yeah! I’ve posted it before, but I saw a T-shirt in a discount store once. Cream-colored back-ground, nice, heavy-weight cotton, pretty flowers silk-screened onto it. Under the flowers, in fancy script lettering, it said: Mom’s are special people! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460/40 "2010-06-09T09:26:10Z")
The other day, my 12-year-old niece was wearing one of those plastic headbands, and I noticed it had writing on it. It said GIRL’S RULE! Oy. She got it at a dollar store, naturally. I noticed a horrific misspelling on a pizza joint’s [menu](http://mschile.brunchma.com/crapola/pizzamenu.jpg) that had been stuck on my door. O.o That was the worst one, although there were other errors, including the fact that they’d misspelled the NAME of the business! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mispelt-sines/542460.md?page=3)