WESTLAKE, Ohio, June 6, 2008 — A Cleveland-area principal says he is embarrassed his students got proof of their "educaiton" on their high school diploma.
Westlake High School officials misspelled "education" on the diplomas distributed this weekend. It's been the subject of mockery on local radio.
Principal Timothy Freeman says he sent the diplomas back once to correct another error. When the corrected diplomas came back, no one bothered to check the things they thought were right the first time.
Publisher Jostens has reprinted the new diplomas—a third attempt—and sent them to the 330 graduates.
[Note that the newspaper knows the correct form of
principal.]
I just edited a paper for an Ivy League professor and corrected affect/effect, complimentary/complementary, is comprised of/comprises, and led/lead, the last error, common today, being "the study was lead by Professor XXX." The term
principal investigator is used so often in research proposals that the writers usually spell that form of
principal correctly, but sometimes even the people with a dozen advanced degrees use it where
principle belongs (e.g.,
. . . based on the principal that . . .).
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