E-mail error ends up in road sign

JadeNB · on Jan 10, 2015

I don't get this last one:

> People living near an Aberdeenshire building site in 2006 were mystified when a sign apologising for the inconvenience was written in Welsh as well as English.

Is it sarcasm? That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

AlexMuir · on Jan 10, 2015

Aberdeenshire is in Scotland. The explanation will almost certainly be that the site fencing was on hire, and no-one bothered taking off the old signs.

Dobbs · on Jan 10, 2015

Aberdeenshire is in Scotland. Which isn't bilingual welsh/english.

JadeNB · on Jan 10, 2015

Ah, I wasn't paying attention. Nonetheless, 'mystified' seems a bit strong. The US isn't bilingual anything, but I am not mystified when I see signage in Spanish as well as English.

PeterWhittaker · on Jan 11, 2015

There are many people in the US who speak Spanish, and many of these can read it as well.

There are few speakers of Welsh in Scotland, even fewer who can read welsh.

It would be as odd as having French-English signs in the US.

philtar · on Jan 10, 2015

Aberdeenshire is in Scotland.