P Edant beware!

[Nemesis]

Punctuation pedants vandalise historic signs

Two young Americans who founded the Typo Eradication Advancement League and went on a mission to correct errors on government signposts have been fined and given suspended sentences for damaging historic signs in the Grand Canyon National Park. Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson removed erroneous apostrophes and added missing commas on signs that they considered contained errors, not realising that the hand-painted signs were the original work of Mary Colter, the American architect who designed the protected hotels and lookout towers in the national park in the 1920s and 1930s. The pair were caught after boasting about their work on the internet; their fines will be used to pay for the signs to be restored.

http://www.sal.org.uk/salon/

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Should "Typo" not, in fact, be "Typo.", since it is an abbreviation of "typographical error" ?

 

[Moo]

I've often been tempted to go out one night with a ladder and some white paint and obliterate the full-stops that they persist in using on the street signs in our Fine City.

Street Saint Road ....

 

[shelli]

we have a sign in our parish church car park which reads "Have you Payed and Displayed" - I ask you!

 

[piper]

we have a sign in our parish church car park which reads "Have you Payed and Displayed" - I ask you!

Perhaps it was meant to be "Have you Prayed and Displayed?" - Surely more appropriate for the church.

 

[shelli]

very witty Wilde!!

 

[Edwardia]

we have a sign in our parish church car park which reads "Have you Payed and Displayed" - I ask you!

Perhaps it was meant to be "Have you Prayed and Displayed?" - Surely more appropriate for the church.

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