Misspelled signs
Published by Deanna Hoak March 8th, 2007 in blogFor those of you who remember the long and frustrated post I made about attempting to verify the spelling of “La Guardia,” you’ll enjoy this story: After twenty years, Hagerstown, Maryland, has corrected the spelling of a town sign directing people to “Municpal Stadium.”
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I'm a freelance copyeditor specializing in fantasy and science fiction. SF/F novels I have copyedited have been finalists for (and have sometimes won) the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, Golden Spur, John W. Campbell Memorial, Quill, Locus, Philip K. Dick, British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy awards. In 2007 I was short-listed for a World Fantasy Award for my copyediting.
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My family briefly lived on a street with a misspelled sign. They fixed it pretty fast, though … someone must have complained! :^)
I hadn’t read your La[]Guardia story before. I was vastly amused, and deeply sympathetic, and somewhat relieved to discover that fiction copy editors also have problems (and wild-goose chases) like this!
The street I lived on when I was a kid had a bend in it one house away. At the bend, the streat name changed to Grinstead. They put up a new sign that said Grimstead. Everyone had a fit, but the best we got was a little white paint to change the “m” to an “n”.
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That’s all. Worst misspelled signs ever.