High school diplomas misspelled

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[chance33_98]

High school diplomas misspelled

June 10, 2003 7:35 AM

The Associated Press

Winchester, Virginia-AP -- Critics might say schools should pay more attention to spelling. At least on the diplomas.

The diplomas handed out at a Virginia high school Friday night misspelled the name of the school.

The "r" in Sherando High School was replaced with an "m," suggesting the students had graduated from "Shemando High School."

School officials say the error is being corrected and new diplomas will be sent to all graduates.

[chance33_98]

A little news on the lighter side.

[MoJo2001]

Ahhhh...government schools at their finest. Should anyone be surprised?

[Zavien Doombringer]

Ahhhh...government schools at their finest. Should anyone be surprised?

It wasn't the School's Print Shop that created the misspelling. Though, to put it back on Public Schools, the clown operating the press was probably a graduate from that Public High School

[So Cal Rocket]

In 1975, when my high school football team won the state championship, each player was awarded a plaque.

The inscription said:

California Intersholastic Federation Division V Champions

[putupon]

what a coincidence! I'm trying to make sense of some drawings sent to me by a Winchester company as we speak.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Yep, not a surprise. Good catch.

On a separate but related note, my (former) company, which was trying to reduce office supplies expenses, once distributed pencils with the imprint "Save Our Suppies", instead of "Save Our Supplies".

[EggsAckley]

Our local Board of Realtors once printed up about a thousand tee shirts with "State Board of Relators."

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Didn't Annapolis diplomas one year refer to the U.S. "Navel" Academy? There are limits to spell checkers.

[boris]

A fellow here had business cards printed up. His name was particularly hard to spell, but they got that right. There was only one teensy problem:

"Canoga Park, Califorkia"

--Boris

[mombonn]

I do believe this will be a funny thread!

[mikeb704]

A series error for a publick skul.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Xenalyte]

When I was in seventh grade, the principal got on the loudspeaker one day to request that all the teachers return their Rules and Regoolshuns booklets.

They had been printed as RULES AND REGUALTIONS.

[mombonn]

A friend tell this story on himself.

He and his family were on vacation, driving through the country. He suddenly saw a sign for a pet moose. He pleaded to go back and look at it until Dad finally turned the car around.

They arrived back the the farm only to learn that it was selling peat moss. LOL

[ctlpdad]

The Spelling Chequer:
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar writ
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

[ctlpdad]

With 4 daughters in public schools, I constantly get mispelled stuff, which I correct, grade & return. One teacher thanked me. (Please don't ask the response of others, especially the "room mothers")

[Gummi Bear]

One of my first jobs was working at a graphic arts firm in San Diego. They had just gotten over the humiliation of having done the typesetting for an issue of a local university newspaper with the front page headline:

"DEAN GIVES PUBIC SPEECH"

[Corin Stormhands]

Okay, here's three:

Where my Mom used to work they did a "Quality is Job #1" campaign. But the frisbees they passed out said "Qualty is Job #1"

A co-worker and I were reviewing resumes from prospective interns. One said she was experienced in "profreading."

And the best one. Several years ago a legislative staffer attempting to be cute noted that a bill before the Virginia General Assembly was sent to the committee on "Pilferages and Erections" (not Privileges and Elections). It got printed and delivered that way.

[Focault's Pendulum]

You say Sherando.....I say Shemando...let's call the hole thing of.

[Publius6961]

In California many of our Highway signs are 8 feet by 12 feet or thereabouts and light green.
When I started using I-5 to commute I noticed that the exit sign at one particular spot read "Thornton Road" (correct) northbound and "Thorton Road" southbound.

The California highway guys must be sensitive.
They replaced their mistake before I could arrange to take a picture.

[RightOnline]

I can top that. I have several.........several...........certificates issued to me by the USAF for the completion of various advanced training courses, etc., that spelled my first name as "STURAT". You can guess what my name is.........and the ribbing I took for the 'new version' of it afterward. The damned Air Force............