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Bewildered village residents have mocked their local council after a road sign meant to honor the late Queen was misspelled.
Locals in South Ferriby, north Lincolnshire, were left scratching their heads after the sign read “Queeen Elizabeth Avenue” with an extra ‘e’.
Ronald Baldwin, 71, said it was “totally pathetic” that North Lincolnshire Council could make such a mistake.
Meanwhile, Claire Jennings, 43, said: “I wonder how many hands it went through, from making it to two gentlemen installing it, without anyone noticing the mistake.”
Dean Molds, 32, thought only of the late Queen Elizabeth II and said: “What would the Queen think if she knew?”
Erroneous sign erected by North Lincolnshire council had extra ‘e’ in Queen
The local authority put the extra ‘e’ down to ‘simple human error’ and sent workers to remove the sign so it could be altered.
Dorothy Mills, 72, who saw it being removed, said: “The gentleman who picked it up yesterday morning said he should have looked at it.”
This is not the first time that a city council has suffered a spelling error.
In January, Essex County Council came under fire after omitting the ‘f’ in Chelmsford, on a new sign leading to a road outside the Essex town.
The council was forced to apologize to residents for the “unfortunate mistake”, the error claimed. appeared during printing and a replacement sign would be installed as soon as possible.
The council attributed the error to “simple human error” and removed the sign to correct it.
Meanwhile, last November a group of ‘punctuation pedants’ won a year-long campaign to restore the apostrophe to their street sign after Winchester City Council changed it to one that was grammatically incorrect.
Village residents were outraged when they discovered the punctuation mark was missing from the new road furniture at St Mary’s Terrace in upscale Twyford, Hampshire.
The council, which made the change as part of a policy to make the signs easier to read, had to backtrack and remove the original, correct sign from the landfill, renew it and reinstall it.
And in May last year, clumsy workers wrote a sign indicating a ‘Bus Slop’ on a road in Eastfield, near Scarborough.
