Misspellings On Public Documents

We reported a couple of days ago about a rather embarrassing omission that forced a Michigan county to reprint all of the ballots for this year's election. It seems they left out the letter 'L' when spelling 'public'. Ok, so it's funny and a few folks have red faces over it. But it frankly pales in comparison to this item:

The central bank of Kazakhstan can't spell the word 'bank' properly on its own bank notes.

The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge (8 pounds) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

The move has drawn the ire of the Central Asian state's politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether.

"The mistake … is not just a spelling problem — it has political undertones," a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said.

"We urge you to tell the National Bank not to put out the notes with a mistake in the Kazakh language."

We here at Blue Crab Boulevard wonder what the misspelled word actually means in the Kazakh language.

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1. The English Guy » Kazakhs Mispell ‘Bank’ On Bank-notes — October 18, 2006 @ 11:39 am