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Aug 2024
North Yorkshire Council to reprint litter posters after misplaced apostrophe
North Yorkshire Council is to replace 800 posters due to a grammatical mistake in an anti-littering campaign.
The council put up the posters at tourist locations and holiday hotspots across the county.
They urged visitors to bin their litter and showed slogans in the Yorkshire dialect, that read 'Gerrit in't bin' with the apostrophe in the wrong place.
After being informed of its mistake by the Yorkshire Dialect Society, the council is amending the slogan to read 'Gerrit in t'bin.'
North Yorkshire Council’s executive member for street scene, Cllr Keane Duncan and colleagues next to the signage.
Cllr Keane Duncan, said: the council’s executive member for street scene, highways and transport, said:
Punctuating Yorkshire dialect appears to be causing us a bit of a headache here at North Yorkshire Council.
While ‘in’t’ features in some dialect dictionaries, we are happy to take the lead of the Yorkshire Dialect Society who are the authority on this subject.
We plan to revise our downloadable signs and social media graphics, moving the apostrophe.
While we might be unsure about where the apostrophe belongs, we are certain there is just one place for litter in North Yorkshire, the bin.
This is not the first time this year North Yorkshire Council has been criticised over grammar.
The council came under fire when it chose to eliminate apostrophes from road signs and a month later it changed road signs reading 'Avenue' to 'Ave’.
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