I saw this on a hand-written “bandit” sign this morning.<\/p>\n
Problem:<\/strong> Explanation:<\/strong> The misspelling of the word “commercial” — as C-O-M-M-E-R-I-C-A-L — on a sign that read “Power Washing Commerical and Res.” was very obvious.<\/p>\n The sign was one of many hand-written signs that I had seen around Houston in the past week for the same power-washing company, which apparently offers its services to both residential and commercial customers.<\/p>\n What gave me pause, though, was that this was not a typographic error.<\/p>\n Granted, people can easily misspell words when hand-writing them, too.<\/p>\n But this particular error (Would you call it a “hand-o” instead of a “typo”?) caught my eye because it immediately looked wrong.<\/p>\n This makes me wonder whether the sign writer was simply guessing at the proper order of the letters, knowing that there were both an “i” and a “c” in the middle of the adjective “Commercial”.<\/p>\n Such will be the fate of anyone who is not taught phonetics, in my opinion.<\/p>\n For fun, I searched Google for each of the following (with the quotation marks, to avoid variations) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:<\/p>\n This tells me that Web authors have used the correct<\/em> spelling versus the incorrect<\/em> spelling by a ratio of 123-to-1, which is excellent, although my enthusiasm is dampened by the nearly 5.5 million misspellings.<\/p>\n Solution:<\/strong> I saw this on a hand-written “bandit” sign this morning. Problem: The misspelling is quite obvious, I hope! Explanation: A “bandit” sign is what the City of Houston calls any sign placed illegally in a public right-of-way, such as at a street corner. The misspelling of the word “commercial” — as C-O-M-M-E-R-I-C-A-L — on a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe misspelling is quite obvious, I hope!<\/p>\n
\nA “bandit” sign is what the City of Houston calls any sign placed illegally in a public right-of-way, such as at a street corner.<\/p>\n\n
\n“Power Washing: Commercial and Res.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"