Just where is this mystery River Tee?
Road signs in Sunderland city centre have managed to annoy both Wearsiders and Teessiders with their misspellings.
A permanent sign in Vine Place gives directions to “Teeside” rather than the correctlyspelled“Teesside”,although it is a common misspelling of the place name.
The sign, which stands outsideTtonicbar,hadpreviously been spelled correctly before an upgrade.
The erroneous replacementhasirritatedoneSunderland resident, who passed on his opinions to the Echo.
The resident asked: “A new directional sign in Vine Place
shows 'Teeside', as opposed to the correct Teesside. Where is thisRiverTeeplease?Themistake is repeated on temporary yellowroadsignsinSilksworth
Row. No wonder young people struggle with basic English, when officialdom falls short!”
The Silksworth Row sign, across the road from the Museum
Vaults pub, is part of the ongoingroadworksinthearea.
Sunderland City Council said: “We will arrange changes to the signs in due course.”
Mistakes with road signage do occasionally occur. In September 2020 workers put up a sign for “Arlington Close” in Pallion, even though the correct“ArlingtonStreet”wasstill legible just inches above it.
In June 2018 new road markings on the surface of Camden Street north of the Queen Alexandra Bridge gave directions to the city “center”, an American spelling or as some might have it – wrong.
Middlesbrough’s name has supposedly been misspelled since 1853 it was given its charter. The name stuck after a semi-literate clerk should have written “Middlesborough” instead.