The Bad Sign Language Contest

The Leonard Lopate Show is collecting grammatically incorrect signs. Upload your photo below and you might be a guest on the show to talk about your sign.

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July 12, 2010 05:47:16 PM
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Peter Bartspcas

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it's in my neighborhood. 39th ave btw 24th and 23rd st in LIC 11101

it says ACTIVE DRYWEY like how somebody with a thick spanish accent would have pronounced it.

July 12, 2010 04:04:41 PM
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Beth

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In the Catskills.

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The sign shows that position is everything (and sometimes that's not such a good thing).

July 12, 2010 02:05:51 PM
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kurt lennig

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In a honeywagon (the travelling bathrooms film crews are subjected to) on Gossip Girl

July 12, 2010 01:49:18 PM
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Edward Doty

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Chelsea

July 12, 2010 12:27:13 PM
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Robert Herman

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A rest-stop on Interstate 70 in western Missouri.

July 11, 2010 01:40:50 PM
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Abby Bergoffen

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July 11, 2010 12:05:18 PM
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Walter McDermott

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The sign is on the Kellog Garden Chinese Restaurant on 38 Kellog Street in Jersey City. The sign reads "We are move to:520 West Side Ave. The restaurant has relocated to that new address. The restaurant is Chinese owned and operated. One has to wonder if the owner went to a Chinese sign maker, his original sign over which the new sign is covering does have Chinese characters or if the proprietor insisted what he wanted to an English speaking sign maker. You can hear the Chinese voice coming from the sign. It may be interesting to telephone the restaurant to find out.

July 10, 2010 07:18:17 PM
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Gerald Wright

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Tokyo, Japan. (Ad for a Japanese bank)

July 10, 2010 07:15:17 PM
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Gerald Wright

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Instructions on how to use the lockers at Tokyo Station, Tokyo, Japan.

July 09, 2010 11:38:34 PM
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Amy

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Orangebur, New York
You know what they say - practise makes perfect!

July 09, 2010 11:34:40 PM
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Amy

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East Dennis, Cape Cod, M!

July 09, 2010 10:06:34 PM
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Jack from Kaohsiung

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Kaohsiung MRT, Sanduo Shopping district station

July 09, 2010 11:33:31 AM
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Donbert

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Cranberry Lake, NY

July 09, 2010 05:29:03 AM
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aristata

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Lewiston, Idaho. If nothing else, it gets your attention.

July 09, 2010 05:20:47 AM
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aristata

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I live in Idaho. The photo was taken in a nearby state.

July 09, 2010 01:37:49 AM
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Hershal Shevade

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This was on the side of a train car in Mumbai, India, taken when I was there in February.

(Are international photos allowed or just in New York? I'm still baffled about how it's enforced.)

July 08, 2010 11:03:40 PM
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andrea robbins

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DUCKS DECOY's

July 08, 2010 10:57:20 PM
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andrea robbins

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DUCK DECOY'S
Des Allemands, Louisiana, May

hey, sorry the two "misplaced apostrophe signs" I submitted are so small and cropped- full images on flickr address below

2010http://www.flickr.com/photos/44740761@N04/4702920945/in/set-72157624281276868/

July 08, 2010 10:48:32 PM
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Joan Cox

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For me, the funniest signs are in England, though never misspelled. The following are my favorites: at a rural pub, PLEASE PARK PRETTILY; on a major highway, CHANGED PRIORITIES AHEAD; on a rural road: COLLECTORS FROG AND TOAD EXHIBITION; in the City of Winchester Magdalen Hill Cemetery: CAR PARK NOW AVAILABLE INSIDE CEMETERY AS A TEMPORARY EXPERIMENT; and these from London streets last month: PLEASE OPEN YOUR BOOT AND BONNET FOR INSPECTION; CYCLE CONTRAFLOW AHEAD; and ARCHES AND PREMISES TO LET.

July 08, 2010 10:43:16 PM
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andrea robbins

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ALLIGATOR MEAT AND FROGS LEG'S
Lockport Louisiana, May 2010

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44740761@N04/4702918921/in/set-72157624281276868/