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A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: ‘The Great Typo Hunt’ from NPR
Finally! Someone decided to do it. In all, Jeff and Ben found 437 typos on American signs and were able to fix about half of them. A valiant effort for these defenders of English. (via)Incensed by a “no tresspassing” sign, Jeff Deck launched a cross-country trip to right grammatical wrongs.
He enlisted a friend, Benjamin D. Herson, and together they got to work erasing errant quotation marks, rectifying misspellings and cutting unnecessary possessive apostrophes.
The Great Typo Hunt is the story of their crusade.
