Who Do You Think You Are? Lynne Freakin’ Truss?

Oh, give them a break — three words and only one misspelling is still a pretty solid slugging average:

A set of signs placed along the Midland Beach boardwalk promenade is asking bicyclists to “yeild” to pedestrians.

But whoever printed the signs forgot one of the basic rules of spelling — “i” before “e,” except after “c.”

Can you spell E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-E-D?

“Someone had to approve it. Someone had to manufacture it. And someone had to erect it. It got by everyone,” said Dan Weibel, a Grant City resident who spotted three of the misspelled metal signs and contacted the Advance.

The signs, which read “Yeild to Peds,” also bear the moniker of the City Department of Parks and Recreation.

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Weibel, a retired bank vice president who collects license plates from all 50 states, said he’s regularly annoyed by frequent misspellings he finds on signs everywhere.

And he called the “yeild” slip-up a sign of the times.

“Today, people don’t care,” he said, guessing that plenty of people probably didn’t even know the word was misspelled when they saw it.