My father was a college prof. My BA is in English Literature and my MA is in Library and Information Sciences. Nevertheless, I try not to get too worked up about spelling and grammar.
However...
This one was at a festival I attended last fall.
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That is too egregious to escape comment. It sounds like a disease! I mean--if you don't know how to spell something, why make something up when all of 5 seconds on Google can clear it up?
There's so much bad spelling around here I couldn't possibly photograph all of it.
One of the most common errors is putting an apostrophe in where it isn't needed. There are signs all over this place that show stuff like:
TV's
Harley's (short for Harley Davidson motorcycles)
what a bunch of moron's!
Ha! That is a pet peeve of mine, I confess. I'm currently in the Florida panhandle, though of course this sort of thing isn't confined to one area of the country. Just steps from my front door there is a series of professionally made signs in front of a sandwich shop that read:
"The beaches (sic) best gyro's(sic)!"-- what exactly belongs to these gyros?
"Mouth watering cuban's (sic)!"-- Cuban's WHAT?
"Amazing reuben's (sic)!"-- What does Reuben possess that is so amazing?
...and don't even get me started on "your", "you're", "our", "are", "there", "their", etc.
Too air is human . . .
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lol!
I will say, though, that early on in their history, I have seen variations in the spelling of "ukulele" including "ukalele." But we're a century on now. Its spelling has been pretty much codified.
As an aside, I do personally say "yoo-kulele" rather than "oo-kulele." It may not be 100% proper, but I think it's acceptable and I prefer it. I love Hawaiian/ Polynesian culture and music, and admire it greatly, but I'm a haole mainlander.