Thursday, August 04, 2005

I live in California. It is quite common to see things here written in both English and Spanish. I suspect that there might be even a law that mandates having Spanish translation available for certain public establishments. Having said this, I admit I did a double-take when I saw a list of services offered by the Customer Service department of out local supermarket:

Notice “Check cashing” and immediately after it “Cheque cashing”. Apparently we here have a lot of respect for our neighbors across the pond and their cute if peculilar way to spell things.

8/4/2005 6:54:18 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [0]  |