Parish fury over spelling error on sign
Friday 9th April 2010, 10:10AM BST.
How do you spell horse? A simple question perhaps, but one that seems to have thrown sign designers at Telford & Wrekin Council.
Drivers approaching the Jiggers roundabout have been invited to turn left for “Horeshay” instead of Horsehay.
Dawley Hamlet Parish Council clerk Martin Goldstraw said the sign was an embarrassment to the people who lived there – and hit out at council chiefs for leaving it up for nearly six months.
He said: “The Horsehay sign is embarrassing for the whole area because everyone knows how to spell horse and everyone in Telford will know how it’s spelt.
“The really upsetting thing is that it’s been there a long time and we have asked the borough council to replace it.”
Telford & Wrekin council spokesman David Morgan said money had been allocated in the budget for the replacement and upgrading of signs.
He said the programme was due to approved by the council’s ruling cabinet next week and the sign was earmarked to be replaced and corrected after that.
But this is not the first time residents in the area have had to put up with designer’s mistakes.
Mr Goldstraw said residents on the Connemara estate in Telford saw their road sign disappear. It was eventually replaced by the council – but with the wrong spelling.
“I don’t know why they got the spelling wrong. It’s pathetic,” said Mr Goldstraw.
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Mistaks Hippen
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It’s an embarrassing gaffe, but there’s no reason for anyone to get on their high hores.
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Shouldn’t the headline have read “Parish boss a bit miffed about minor spelling mistake”?
It’s not as though they started the word with a “W”…..
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We have “Woofferton” signs around here spelt “Wofferton” and a temporary road closure sign that has just been put up saying “Eastern Bridge” instead of the correct spelling “Eastham Bridge”.
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Please shropshire star could this artical be any less meaningful?
How about:-
Parish furry after stroking horse call Spelling Mistake.
Dawley Hamlet Parish Council clerk Martin Goldstraw said “its embarrassing for the whole area because we’re knee deep in hair and no one knows what to do with it”
Why do we vote again? Was it to put in place respectable members of the community to deal with important issues that affect the wellbeing of all? Or was it so dribbling no-bodies could could crawl out from beneath thier stones, make some noise for a vote and then crawl away again once the expenses claim forms have been signed?
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perhaps someone ought to be made to resign….:)
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Gringo – please tell me that the numerous spelling and grammar mistakes in your post were meant ironically!
Mind you, there was an horrendous spelling error in the lead article of the Telford Journal a couple of weeks ago. My recollection is that they had spelt ‘ridiculous’ as ‘ridiculas’. Hardly sets a good example, does it?
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Nothing surprising here. Glaring spelling errors are now commonplace in the national press and in all sorts literature put out by businesses. It’s an inevitable consequence of dumbing down the education system and large numbers of illiterate school leavers joining the workforce.
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