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Royal farce! King signs spell trouble
CLEARLY the sign-makers at Westminster Council aren’t versed in the rudiments of English grammar.
But then again, we all come unstuck with those tricky apostrophes, don’t we?
After getting the name of King’s Scholars’ Passage in Victoria correct at the first time of asking, officials at City Hall then proceeded to misspell the street name in two different ways. Evidently, they didn’t realise that the passage was used by more than one of the King’s scholars, and will now be hoping for a mention in the next edition of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. The other signs read “King’s Scholars Passage” and “King‘s Scholar’s Passage”.
The council has made light of the embarrassing mishap. They said the mismatched signs would remain in position until they were due for replacement, when they would consider auctioning them off on eBay.
But leader of the opposition Paul Dimoldenberg swooped on the errors. He said: “I wonder what the Education Commission would have thought of this? What is the value of a misspelt Westminster street sign on eBay?”
Westminster’s director of transportation Martin Low said: “We keep a database of all applications for new street sign names and refer to this database when producing replacements. Unfortunately, in this instance it appears mistakes have been made in the positioning of an apostrophe. When the signs are next due for replacement we will ensure they are reproduced correctly and perhaps we’ll auction the current ones on eBay. We won’t replace them immediately though as it would be a waste of public funds.”
Meanwhile, on eBay, a second batch of Westminster road signs are going up for auction this week, including the iconic Abbey Road, made famous by the Beatles.
It follows the council’s successful sale of 30 West End street signs including Leicester Square, Strand and Shaftesbury Avenue in July, which raised more than £18,000 for street improvements.
The signs will be available from noon today (Friday) in a seven-day auction.
The Abbey Road sign has a reserve price of £1,000.
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