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09-06-2016, 02:53 PM
British store has an A+ response to road sign spelling error
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LONDON — If ever there's a good time to double-check spelling, it's when you're painting giant white letters on the surface of a road.
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We imagine it wouldn't have taken the Sainsbury's store in Edenthorpe, UK, long to **tice and rectify the mistake below, but unfortunately for them someone on Twitter got there first.*
In case you were wondering what the "seabirds straight ahead" bit means, this is what a petrel looks like:
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This grumpy chap is the Southern giant-petrel.
Image: DeAgostini/Getty Images
Still, the supermarket had a good sense of humour about the whole thing. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/06/sainsburys-road-sign-spelling-error-petrel/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LONDON — If ever there's a good time to double-check spelling, it's when you're painting giant white letters on the surface of a road.
SEE ALSO: Badass cat is **w the undisputed owner of this British supermarket (http://mashable.com/2016/01/07/cat-takes-over-sainsburys/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
We imagine it wouldn't have taken the Sainsbury's store in Edenthorpe, UK, long to **tice and rectify the mistake below, but unfortunately for them someone on Twitter got there first.*
In case you were wondering what the "seabirds straight ahead" bit means, this is what a petrel looks like:
http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/pRYmKfqqnpXEZwLCiDQnnDfCCjo=/fit-in/575x4096/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fima ge%2F201079%2FPetrel.jpg
This grumpy chap is the Southern giant-petrel.
Image: DeAgostini/Getty Images
Still, the supermarket had a good sense of humour about the whole thing. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/06/sainsburys-road-sign-spelling-error-petrel/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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