If you thought goofy road sign errors were only an American phenomenon, think again. If there’s an international language, it’s incompetence. Nobody can spell anything right, no matter where they’re located. Even in jolly old England, where the posh accent makes everything sound impressive and smart, the spelling is as bad as it is anywhere else. That’s why the Bury St. Edmunds council is red-faced over a road sign that spelled Bedingfeld Way as “Bedingfled Way.”
“Normal practice is to check the sign on site, before they are lifted into place. In this case, the person who would have checked the sign was not on site,” said a spokeswoman for the sign company, obviously trying to Bedenflee from responsibility. Obviously, simple reading is a very technical skill that requires one person with special training to perform. Was no one else on the site where the sign was erected able to read English? Mistakes happen, and odds are nobody was from the area where the sign was going up, but you’d think one person would know the right name of the road. Surely someone had to use the GPS to travel there, or a paper map, or printed out directions from the Internet or something!
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