Somebody boobed with a temporary road sign in Shrewsbury: they put an h into Whelsh.
A sad reflection on modern standards of education, said the Queen’s English Society. You’ve got to be dopey to make that sort of error, said a local.
Well, it is embarrassing, so close to Wales, but it’s not that hard to understand how easy it is to confuse Wales with whales, from where ‘tis but a short step, via whelp to Whelsh.
It is also crushingly easy to make misspellings when your attention is focused on forming the letters properly, as I found out when I tried my hand at calligraphy
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