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Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« on: August 03, 2023, 03:48:11 PM »

A highway sign on I-74 in Cincinnati is making the news because one of the names is misspelled. The eastbound exit sign for Exit 14 should read "Cheviot". Instead it reads "Chevoit".

https://local12.com/news/local/misspelling-cheviot-interstate-74-exit-sign-north-bend-chevoit-misspelled-cincinnati
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2023, 05:25:36 PM »

The horror?
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2023, 08:21:37 PM »

That is some mighty fine wrok.
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2023, 08:47:58 PM »

Where did they go to...
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2023, 08:52:11 PM »

Reminds me of the new sign for Nielsville, MN on U.S. 75 south.

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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2023, 10:35:00 PM »

I overcaem dyslexia.
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2023, 01:59:44 AM »

Happened twice in Connecticut: "Flatbnsh Avenue" (I-84) and "Bryam" (I-95)

https://www.thehour.com/news/article/misspelled-highway-sign-exit-i-84-hartford-17427673.php
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2023, 03:52:43 PM »

Exit 19 on I-96

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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2023, 03:59:05 PM »

^^ At least they spelled out Grand and not used Gd.
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2023, 04:11:47 PM »

I overcaem dyslexia.

As someone I knew had in his autosignature, "I may have Alzheimer's, but at least I don't have Alzheimer's."



Haven't seen this one on the forum before:

« Last Edit: August 04, 2023, 04:14:24 PM by 1995hoo »
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2023, 04:18:06 PM »

I think the title of this thread might be unnecessarily insulting.
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2023, 09:45:19 PM »

I overcaem dyslexia.

As someone I knew had in his autosignature, "I may have Alzheimer's, but at least I don't have Alzheimer's."



Haven't seen this one on the forum before:


Oh look, it's News10, my favorite local news station.  Interesting that the graphics imply that the sign typo in another part of the state (News10 is an Albany station, although News Channel 9 in Syracuse is a fellow Nextar ABC affiliate) is "breaking news".
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2023, 07:24:34 AM »

A highway sign on I-74 in Cincinnati is making the news because one of the names is misspelled. The eastbound exit sign for Exit 14 should read "Cheviot". Instead it reads "Chevoit".

https://local12.com/news/local/misspelling-cheviot-interstate-74-exit-sign-north-bend-chevoit-misspelled-cincinnati


So did a dyslexic person design this sign or are you just making fun of people with disabilities for the sake of a (bad) joke.
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2023, 08:01:23 AM »

I have a photo credit in the paper from many years ago for taking a picture of a sign with the town of Gibbstown spelled Gibbtsown on one of the signs.  But I didn't think of it as a dyslexic issue; someone just designed the sign wrong.
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Re: Never let a dyslexic person design highway signs
« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2023, 09:36:08 PM »

A sign on US 377 in Pilot Point once pointed the way north to Whitestboro. That sign has disappeared down the memory hole but can still be seen if you want to go find newspaper microfilm from 2003-ish.
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