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06-08-2012, 07:20 AM
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| Unauthorized User  Member Since: Dec 2011 Location: Thundera
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| MD high schools toss 8,000 diplomas over spelling Maryland high schools toss 8,000 diplomas over spelling error - U.S. News The thousands of high school graduates in Prince George's County, Md., have completed all their studies, but they don't have an official diploma to prove it. A spelling error marred at least 8,000 high school diplomas that were distributed last week, officials from Prince George's County, Maryland's second-largest school district, said. Students received with diplomas that stated they had completed the approved "progam" of study. The missing "r" was discovered after commencement exercises had already begun.
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06-08-2012, 07:27 AM
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| Surely you jest ...  Member Since: Nov 2009 Location: Da Bubbahood
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| Collectors item? This thread will take a wide turn, hide and watch. Good morning all 
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06-08-2012, 07:29 AM
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06-08-2012, 11:13 PM
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| Registered User  Member Since: Jul 2009 Location: The Socho
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| I hate when there's no spellcheck option available.
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06-09-2012, 04:43 AM
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| NOT Politically Correct!!  Member Since: Jul 2006 Location: Displaced New Yorker in Southern MD
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| And the spellers of the certificates were past graduates!!! 
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06-09-2012, 06:21 AM
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| No worse than the millions they throw at overpaid phony job administrators. |
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06-09-2012, 07:29 AM
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| Surely you jest ... Member Since: Nov 2009 Location: Da Bubbahood
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| Honestly, I find it funny how the majority of the world looks at spelling errors. Are they all truly spelling errors? I see many as typos and transposing, yet that spelling error term is always used first. I must say that many do carry a lot of humor if read like they're spelled. Like in the above story. ;) Good morning all
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06-09-2012, 09:34 AM
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| Hey. This is P.G. County. How many graduates would have identified the problem if they had gotten the tainted diplomas? The majority probably can't spell anyway. Those who do spell would be too ashamed to admit they went to a P.G. public high school. Baja28 and SugarBear47 like this.
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06-09-2012, 12:17 PM
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| Outside contracter,  I retired last July, and helped print those certificates for 23 years, no spelling problems when I printed them. |
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06-09-2012, 12:23 PM
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| curiouser and curiouser  Member Since: Jan 2004
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| When I graduated in 2000 they had to mail everyone new diplomas because they put the wrong county seal on them.  Im not sure if it was just La Plata or the whole county.
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