Recently two guys embarked a cross country trip with the lofty goal of correcting grammar and spelling on road signs, visitors bureau signs and the like. The two were understandably distressed at the number of errors on highly visible signs around the country and set out to singly-handedly (double-handedly?) make the changes. Armed with sharpies and white-out they added or blotted out commas and other punctuation, corrected misspellings (misspell is one of the more commonly misspelled words) on national monuments all around the country. However, they made the mistake of publicizing their accomplishments, even being interviewed on NPR, and were subsequently arrested, charged and convicted of vandalism of national monuments. In my opinion, these guys should have been given a medal. Sure, spelling correctly is sometimes a challenge, but when your words are going to be enshrined on a monument, or even a big billboard on the side of the road, get a dictionary already. I mean, how embarrassed is the guy who designed the yellow & black "Deer Crossing" signs that show the deer's antlers swept back, instead of forward like real deer's antlers do?
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