What’s wrong with this picture?
- The sign makers misspelled “within.”
- They capitalized the “P” in “Prohibited.”
- Next, “WAIT CONES” is unnecessarily shouted out in all caps.
- Afterward, we find the appalling misspelling of the word “enforced.”
- Finally, from a purely logical perspective, shouldn’t they be prohibiting parking in areas with wait cones, not in areas with no wait cones?
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7 comments ↓
This is funny, Kim. Signs like these are a wonderful teaching tool!
I hope you found this one in a foreign country
It is crazy how bad our communication can be sometimes.
wow. that looks like it should be on one of those japanese t-shirts, not on a sign in the UK!
It certainly begs the question: Who is the genius at the “sign-proofreading” desk?
Does anybody hire proofreaders anymore? I’m starting to wonder, lol……
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The Brits have worse signage than our own DOT!
Ha, Pat! I’m finding that bad grammar and punctuation isn’t limited to the U.S. (Teaser: Nov. 4th’s Wordless Wednesday will also testify to this!)