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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Richard Messing
In a bar/restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, NY.
The word drawer is misspelled. It's the same word that lands Henry Fonda's character (Manny Balestrero) in Hitchcock's film "The Wrong Man" in a lot of trouble. Poor Manny had misspelled the same word in a note the robber had passed to a teller. If only Manny could have spelled "drawer" he might have been immediately exonerated!
aaron auslender
I can see that the ramp is close. But I can't use it, because it is CLOSED.
Norwalk CT
teri
I took this photo around April 1990 on Ave C & 9th St. when I was an Artist in Residence at the Tompkins Square Library nearby. It is part of a series I have taken of my neighborhood over the decades. I hope the quality can be enhanced, since I could only find an old print quickly. I could find the negative if that would help.
I would be willing to be a call-in guest, but am disabled & getting to the studio would be a hardship.
If I find some of the fruit & veg. stand funny misspelling pix. I'll send them along.
Regards,
teri
Anne Wehr
Pierrepont Park in Brooklyn. Official parks dept signage!
Marco Accattatis
Doctor's office building in West Orange, NJ.
elaine richard
On a trip to Washington DC in 1985, above the dryers in a launderette.
Mark Zimmerman
At the entrance to the Town of Oyster Bay recycling facility in Old Bethpage, NY
Kate Fink
It's in a stairwell at Columbia University's Journalism School.
Michael Rabin
This sign is on the Golden Gate Bridge and purports to provide information about how and when you are able to cross the bridge if attempting to cross by any means other than motor vehicle (it looks cut off on the right, but this is the entire sign!). I use it in my class on information design as an example of very bad information design... I've been looking at it for two years and still haven't deciphered what most of it means. Have fun :)
Lon Thomas
This was on the door of our company store that sells branded apparel and other merchandise. We are a Swedish manufacturing company, and our people in the offices in the USA don't always get the language right. It _looks_ like the right word, though, doesn't it?
Richard Messing
1222 Surf Avenue, Coney Island,
Brooklyn, NY
The word should have been spelled: BAZAAR
Karsten
Queens Plaza South & 27th Street, Long Island City
Henry Pinsker
Watch Hill, Rhode Island, at the entrance to a store. Apparently it means there is a room at the back of the store in which items for women are featured.
Alex McKay
October, 2001, just after the 9/11 attacks, I came across this banner that misspelled Broadway. I hope the sushi place got a discount on the banner!
www.Queensbridge.us
Queensbridge Community Center misspelled the name Queensbridge.
There it hangs, that big banner, on the front of Queensbridge's Jacob Riis Community Center
On 41st Avenue, between 10th Street and 12th Street in Long island City.
Surely, this final blow to education can only reinforce the thought amongst Queensbridge children that the best way to combat literacy in the projects is just to keep plugging along, creating one "misteak" at a time.
The web site www.Queensbridge.us frequently features anomalies in the projects
