Missing one minor detail — a second P in appointment — at a Palmyra car wash
I’ve long held that the most under-appreciated song on Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” is “Downbound Train.” This lyric has stayed with me throughout the 30-plus years since the record’s release: “Now I work down at the car wash/where all it ever does is rain.”
We’ve witnessed a drizzle of typos in the five months since our most recent post on the topic.
At Triangle’s Car Wash in Palmyra (that’s what the sign above says, although the company also goes by Triangle Car Washes, sans apostrophe), no amount of buffing and waxing can hide the spelling mistakes.
Above, Triangle missed one important detail: a second P in appointment. Below, the wash is express, but the spelling in the starburst takes the long way home: free vacuuming and free E’s.
Speaking of precipitation, it was during a rain delay during a summer baseball tournament that I read that no ball use of any kind will “bo” permitted at In the Net in Palmyra.
Don’t they know that misspellings are a big no-no?
This sign at Ski Roundtop in Lewisberry misses the target when it comes to “archery.” It’s enough to make us quiver.
Turn in your badge, Sheriff Robin. We’re making a citizen’s arrest, right here at Round Robin in Harrisburg.
You have the right to remain silent, but you have the responsibility to get punctuation right. “Its” is a possessive pronoun, suggesting ownership. What you meant was “It’s” the law, as in a contraction of “It is.”
Baseball players can chase their dreams, and they can chase statistical superiority. But we’re not talking about a verb here but rather a proper noun, former Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Chase Utley.
The Phillies’ farm team in Reading, the Fightin’ Phils, saluted Utley this summer after he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers. There should have been a comma after memories, setting of “Chase” as the object of the thanks.
The national pastime’s punctuation problem persists on this felt York White Roses pennant, with the thorny problem of apostrophes and plurals. The former should be used to convey ownership (the rose’s petals, for instance) or contraction of two words (see Sheriff Robin above).
An apostrophe does not create a plural, although it creates many problems for those who don’t know how to use one.
