Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Power Of Spelling

I just moved desks at work and asked for the workplace to be vacuumed (someone unleashed a staple gun on the floor). So the person I asked put up three signs in my area to get the attention of the cleaning crew. They are supposed to read "Please Vacuum Area".
 
Instead they read thusly:
"Please Vacume Areas"
"Please Vacumm Aras"
"Please Vacum"
 
Needless to say, the area was not vacuumed. Though in all fairness, I don't think the cleaning crew speaks or reads any English, so the exercise may have been futile anyways. But it certainly provided some nice humor for me this morning as I sat at my new cube.

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