Ironic typo on crosswalk near Massachusetts school taken in stride by town

The Town of Holden, Massachusetts discovered that the contractors that they hired to do some road painting at a local school had made a typo without realizing it.

It’s hard enough to believe someone would make a typo on such a short, common word, but even harder to believe that no co-workers or supervisor noticed. They did the job, packed up, and moved on.

Town officials weren’t mad at all and, in spite of probably getting 28 gajillion calls by local Grammar Nazis, kept things in perspective, and even injected a little humor.

Apparently, the word is harder to spell than many think and here at New Bedford Guide any time there is the slightest possibility of snow, dozens of high schoolers will inbox us asking if school, er…um…shcool, ha sbeen cancelled. At least 1 out of every messages spells “school” incorrectly and 90% of the messages have 3rd grade English, spelling, grammar, punctuation, and syntax with my all-time gavorite being”Y is they shool damn”

“We are aware of the typo in the road near Mountview School and we informed the contractor shortly after the error occurred two weeks ago.

Due to recent weather conditions they have not been able to return to repaint the text. We expect it to be corrected shortly and we are eternally grateful for everyone’s input on this matter.”-Town of Holden.

Town of Holden photo.