“No drinking alcohol on premises. Our licenses doesn’t allow it”
Sign in a liquor/convenience store/ice cream/pizza shop.
For some reason, several local flower shops like to advertise their specials on “BOKAYS”
I die a little inside each time I pass one.
When private businesses do it, that’s one thing; but I used to drive by a freeway onramp with the warning:
NO
PED
XIGN
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.
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.
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”.
A menu at dining hall once had pie listed as “hoemmade pie.”
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”.
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!!!
Sign on the exterior of a defunct and condemned old highway motel: Now under New Menengment!
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’.
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.
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/
One I’ve seen fairly frequently is ‘pizzaria.’
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.
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.
At least it’s not a Desitinated area.
Wonder what they do if a customer decides to light up there?
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:
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 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!
