Thursday, October 8, 2015

Not the the worst misspelling ever


       Local high school sign in front of school:

                    "Volleyball tryouts have been susspended"

       You know, it's not altogether wrong because the second extended "s" is an enactment of what the word means--it's an extension of expected time.  Maybe they will pick up again, those tryouts, and maybe they won't.

       For the moment they're off, they're done.  Is it temporarily?  I don't know, but it is, the event is. . .
                             
                        suss pended 

       The Latin roots of the word mean "hung up."
 

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