Unbelievable! These guys have been in business 22 years and the name of
the business is _still_ misspelled. It doesn't say much for the
Canadian education system that they managed to spell it wrong in the
first place.

I have to assume that SOMEONE in the past 22 years has noticed that
their name is misspelled and mentioned it to the owners - or maybe I'm
overestimating the school system again - so you have to wonder why they
haven't fixed the spelling yet. Maybe they're too cheap to get the sign
fixed and reprint all of their business cards?

I saw a bumper sticker a few years ago that caught my eye due to a
typo:

I get more a.s than a TOLIET seat. [emphasis added].

I found myself wondering how many people had been too illiterate to
catch this mistake or too indifferent to do something about it. Since
it was apparently a mass-produced bumper sticker, there was probably an
original writer who composed this little gem. There was probably a
printing company that had the ability to generate bumper stickers. That
company must have had a sales guy or at least a clerk that took the
order. Then there was probably the guy (or team) that did the actual
printing. Then perhaps there were probably additional companies that
sold/distributed/advertised the bumper sticker once it had been
produced. You have to figure that people in all of these companies saw
the text at some point. Didn't ANY of those people care enough to point
out this typo? Or were they all too incompetent to actually catch this
mistake? And then there's the customers. Didn't anyone who ever saw
this sticker advertised in the years that it has been available ever
notice the mistake or bother to tell the manufacturer that it was
misspelled?

Call me a grammar snob if you like but I think this sort of avoidable
mistake makes everyone involved look illiterate, indifferent, or both.

--
Buzz