Submitted by Lilit, this awkward "Dogs and cats need a licence" sign doesn't exactly meet the criteria for a genuine lowercase L offense here, but it is an interesting find nonetheless. Posted on The anti-social event of the season, a blog about kerning, punctuation, and other printed text problems, the author takes umbrage not with a lowercase L amidst uppercase letters, but with an unusually tall lowercase L. Other readers noticed that licence was spelled incorrectly.
Friday, November 10, 2006
license to ill
Submitted by Lilit, this awkward "Dogs and cats need a licence" sign doesn't exactly meet the criteria for a genuine lowercase L offense here, but it is an interesting find nonetheless. Posted on The anti-social event of the season, a blog about kerning, punctuation, and other printed text problems, the author takes umbrage not with a lowercase L amidst uppercase letters, but with an unusually tall lowercase L. Other readers noticed that licence was spelled incorrectly.
I think it's spelled right if you're British. But this is AMERICA, bastards!
ReplyDeleteLicence is correct - I think it's a similar verb/noun differentiation to practise vs practice.
ReplyDeleteWe're not all in America!
excuse me, that's an American-style area code in the phone number!
ReplyDeleteToronto's posed as New York long enough to earn US citizenship.
That's clearly a capital lowercase L.
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