Spelling - I Still Think It's An Important Skill

I understand if English is not your first language that you may make some mistakes but I would expect signwriters to be skilled in the language that forms part of their trade. Maybe they'd had a late night on the grog and their mind wasn't on the job or perhaps the real estate agent wasn't having a good day. One little change can bring a brand new meaning.

My spelling isn't perfect but I don't get paid for that particular skill. And you could half a laugh at me too. I don't mind.

Impressive enough looking sign.

I thought that theft was more of a problem on building sites. Now they're designing it into the appliances.

The only reason we noticed this for sale sign in the first place was because Miky had said she'd killed a magpie with her car during the day and she wanted to walk and show me the body. Two birds had been fighting and were doing loop-the-loop in front of her and she wasn't able to avoid them. It turned out that my wife didn't murder a magpie but a shrike. She was devastated, actually. If it was a pigeon I would have been happier because I don't mind the shrikes. They chase crows so they're a gutsy little bird.

Miky's first road kill.

Spelling - Make Up Your Mind, People

I'm a bit of a pedant when it comes to spelling. Let it be known. And I prefer the British English dictionary. If you are writing "ax" then you only have two-thirds of the item. Australia uses the Pommie spelling. So it really bugs me to see a shop having an each-way bet. Are signwriters in this country half-wits or do they not question the customer?

CENTRE or CENTER - make up your mind, people.

I think these guys have used a little too much poetic licence. The Language Police should be paying them a visit. How do we expect the youth of today to formulate a consistent technique of spelling? Or am I reading too much into this?