In order to balance things out a little I thought I would post a couple of pictures that came to me from New Jersey just so that North Idaho doesn’t look like the poorest spellers in the nation.

A friend of mine from Pittsgrove, NJ sent this picture to me via Facebook a few months ago:

Yes, it’s a real picture taken of a real misspelled traffic notice painted on the road. I can’t remember what intersection this was at in the Pittsgrove/Centerton area.

He also took this picture in nearby Pennsville, NJ and gave me permission to post it too:

So, there you go. Now I feel better, haha.

Sigh. Finding signs, advertising, and other major spelling and grammatical mistakes in my hometown area is occurring much too frequently.

Here’s a picture of sign in front of an “unnamed church” in Hayden:

Naturally my brother, being the observant excellent photographer that he is, managed to include the street address of the “unnamed” church. So, y’all can go figure out exactly which church it is now.

Beyond the fact that I find the quote to be theologically unsound and weird, it’s obviously misspelled.

I have a photo I have been saving that I received courtesy of a Lake City High School graduate (thanks Cesar) because I couldn’t come up with a clever, witty way to post it. But, I just received an email from my brother earlier today with a photo taken of a construction sign in Post Falls. The two signs seem to go hand in hand since they’re both from North Idaho.

Please don’t get me wrong – North Idaho is great. Our part of the country is gorgeous and the folks around these parts are pretty awesome. Unfortunately, they just don’t spell well or is it fortunate since it gives me great material for my blog…

*The posters “congratulating” the softball champions were hung up all over the school.

*As mentioned earlier, this sign was seen on a street in Post Falls. Nice, huh?

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated my site. I apologize. I have been busy, it was summer, and time just got away from me.

Anyhow, I just came across this sign (thanks to a tweet that scrolled down one of my Tweetdeck columns) and I couldn’t pass up posting it here. It’s a great addition to my quirky collection of Bad Signs.

And, with this post I hope to be able to start updating my site a bit more regularly.

Here’s a link to the original source of the picture. There’s a short article that goes into some detail about how this sign was able to be publicly (or should I say pubicly?) displayed with such an egregious error. Enjoy…

I realize it’s just a little sign for a basketball tournament. But, is it really unreasonable to expect a sign that is hung within a school to contain the correct spelling of such an important word? I certainly don’t advocate reliance upon word processor program spell checkers, but at least they will alert you that you have misspelled the word ‘sportsmanship’!

Of course there is also the issue of the period, the use of the word so, and the second sentence.

This can’t possibly be good news for that school district…