{"id":2192,"date":"2007-03-12T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T18:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/who_do_you_think_you_are_lynne_freakin_truss.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:42:25","slug":"who_do_you_thin_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/who_do_you_thin_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Think You Are? Lynne Freakin’ Truss?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, give them a break — three words and only one misspelling is still a pretty solid slugging average<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A set of signs placed along the Midland Beach boardwalk promenade is asking bicyclists to “yeild” to pedestrians.<\/p>\n

But whoever printed the signs forgot one of the basic rules of spelling — “i” before “e,” except after “c.”<\/p>\n

Can you spell E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-E-D?<\/p>\n

“Someone had to approve it. Someone had to manufacture it. And someone had to erect it. It got by everyone,” said Dan Weibel, a Grant City resident who spotted three of the misspelled metal signs and contacted the Advance.<\/p>\n

The signs, which read “Yeild to Peds,” also bear the moniker of the City Department of Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Weibel, a retired bank vice president who collects license plates from all 50 states, said he’s regularly annoyed by frequent misspellings he finds on signs everywhere.<\/p>\n

And he called the “yeild” slip-up a sign of the times.<\/p>\n

“Today, people don’t care,” he said, guessing that plenty of people probably didn’t even know the word was misspelled when they saw it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, give them a break — three words and only one misspelling is still a pretty solid slugging average: A set of signs placed along the Midland Beach boardwalk promenade is asking bicyclists to “yeild” to pedestrians. But whoever printed the signs forgot one of the basic rules of spelling — “i” before “e,” except […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}