{"id":324,"date":"2009-08-11T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-08-11T22:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T22:50:14","slug":"signs-of-misspelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/signs-of-misspelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of (mis)spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dogwelder\/500930101\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Comunications-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"Comunications\" title=\"Comunications\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Comunications-300x144.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Comunications.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"www.epsomguardian.co.uk \">Epsom Guardian<\/a> has become the latest illustrious newspaper to highlight the inadequacy of the Great British Public\u2019s spelling abilities.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epsomguardian.co.uk\/news\/4538957.Council_warning_sign_littered_with_spilling_mistooks\/\">the story<\/a>, some locals are not amused by mistakes made on a sign put up by a contractor.  <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not alone \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/education\/spelling_bee\/article5669602.ece\">this article<\/a> from The Times pokes fun at poor spellers across the globe, and there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/spelling\/ \">photo group<\/a> set up to highlight spelling deficiencies. <\/p>\n<p>Is it possible the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/british-spelling-winners\/ \">Spelling Bee<\/a> is galvanising people into action against misspelling?<\/p>\n<p>(Side note: there\u2019s a joker at the Epsom Guardian web HQ \u2013 check out the name of the link to the story\u2026)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epsom Guardian has become the latest illustrious newspaper to highlight the inadequacy of the Great British Public\u2019s spelling abilities. In the story, some locals are not amused by mistakes made on a sign put up by a contractor. They\u2019re not alone \u2013 this article from The Times pokes fun at poor spellers across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,44],"tags":[157,161,159,158,162,13,60,160],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-spelling","category-words","tag-epsom-guardian","tag-flickr","tag-great-british-public","tag-newspaper","tag-photo","tag-spelling","tag-spelling-bee","tag-the-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}