Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader Christopher Wawak writes: Saw this on the far west exit on the Frankford bound El platform @ 15th street.Elecrical indeed.......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Our pal Phillybits found this sign at 48th and Lancaster. Look closely and you'll see that they've invented a new letter!......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Proofreading Philly is usually a Thursday feature, but we felt the need to run a bonus edition today for the sake of timeliness. We want you to look at the......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Katie from Broken Umbrellas wonders if Polaris Nail owns an "& Spa." We were wondering the same thing ourselves!......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader Jen Oliver, who previously submitted the worst shot menu ever, found this sign at a pizza place between Fishtown and Port Richmond, where apparently the pies can get......

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Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. We found this sign on Chestnut Street between 18th and 19th. And that, really, is all we have to say about that.......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Reader Brian C. Cooke writes: "Here is one I just captured outside New York Chicken & Seafood on Germantown Ave. in Mt. Airy. I can't decide which is worse: the......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillybits snapped this photo for us in Grays Ferry. You'll note that the offending spelling error appears not once, but twice, in the photograph. We know where we won't be......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. What bothered us about this photo, submitted to us by Jen Oliver, wasn't that "Red-Headed" and "B-52" were both missing hyphens. What bothered us is that whoever wrote the shot......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Chris Illuminati of phillyburbs.com found this sign at a Taco Bell in the suburbs (where else?) and writes: "Not sure if this was an informative Post-it note about the soda......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader AS (you may also know him as Malcolm X. Park) found this sign at a hair salon on 52nd Street. The salon is, apparently, owned by a cousin......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. This week, we have a double-shot of Proofreading for you! Firstly, we'd like to thank My Philly Network for linking to our recent post about buying homes in Philadelphia. The......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Thanks to Phillybits for making this week's submission easy for us. (CBS3 has since changed the story's headline, but it was good while it lasted.)......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Holy Dan Quayle, Batman! An "e" doesn't belong at the end of "tomato" anymore than it belongs at the end of "potato." And yet GiGi in Old City is far......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Our own Eric Smith found this sign in Fishtown, where they're so friendly that the whole community gets together and shares one breakfast pastry.......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Oh man. Where can we begin with this poster? When reader AS submitted it to us last month (you can see the full version here), we weren't sure which error......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader James found these two outstandingly un-proofread headlines on philly.com over the weekend. The first, a spelling error, proves that Hooked on Phonics worked too well for somebody. The......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader Christopher followed up on last week's Asshole of the Week by pointing out something very strange: while Commissioner Ramsey's name was spelled correctly in the Inqy article we......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Editor Jim found this Inky error while compiling Tuesday's news post. As of yet, the error hasn't been corrected. Hey, isn't this what newspapers hire copy editors for?......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader Dexter sent us this gem that appeared on philly.com yesterday. We're not entirely sure if it's a typo or a Freudian slip, but whatever it is, it gave......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader Christopher sent us this 6abc.com story from last Friday, reminding us that: "According to dictionary.com—a breech is a ... um ... butt." So unless the hacker also mooned......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader Leanne snapped this photo recently while she was stuck in traffic behind a double-decker tour bus. She writes: I hope city dollars got put towards personalizing those buses......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Editor Jim found this shining example of singular-plural disagreement on his daily PATCO ride. While "their" may now be considered acceptable as a gender-neutral pronoun, it was intended in the......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. You know, if they'd taken out an exclamation mark or two, they might have been able to fit that missing vowel in... Thanks to Phillyist Eric for finding this one......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Once in a while, Proofreading Philly turns into Fact-checking (Phact-checking?) Philly, and this is one of those times. We just wouldn't be responsible bloggers if we didn't correct CBS 3's......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillybits snapped this photo for us on his way into Tuesday's Drinking Liberally at Tangier in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. He writes: "I guess the tension of this election is......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist reader moocat moocat found this one on "Samp...Sam...SANsom Street, at 17th." Come on guys, haven't you learned, yet?......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Thanks to reader Brian for this submission, which needs no further commentary.......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillyist Angela forwarded this on to us. It's a letter sent to Inquirer subscribers from the Pennsylvania Treasury. But despite all the presumed brainpower between the two, they couldn't catch......