British store has an A+ response to road sign spelling error
Oh dear.
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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.
We imagine it wouldn't have taken the Sainsbury's store in Edenthorpe, UK, long to notice and rectify the mistake below, but unfortunately for them someone on Twitter got there first.
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The picture above was shared on Twitter by @DrMuttley, who credits Deborah Kelly as the photographer.
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In case you were wondering what the "seabirds straight ahead" bit means, this is what a petrel looks like:
This grumpy chap is the Southern giant-petrel.
Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images
Still, the supermarket had a good sense of humour about the whole thing.
"We're aware of this and correcting the misteke," they told the BBC.
