First fails a spelling test

摘要

Having trained as a teacher, Hugh Dougherty can spot a mis-spelt word within the blink of an eye, especially when one character change turns a verb into a noun. Like practise to practice. Unfortunately, it looks like someone at First Bus - probably at a national level - missed that class at school and has used the noun instead of the verb on the signage promoting social distancing in the pandemic. Two - or 2,000 - wrongs do not a right make, but First is far from alone with this error. Shop signs across the land show 'practice' to be the greengrocer's apostrophe of these Covid times. Or time's.