Only in the DR: Loudry Shopp

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This week’s ‘Only in the DR’ post was sent to us by Yollmary Genao and is a photo of a sign for a lavanderia or laundry shop.

The obvious problem with the sign is that the English part “loudry shopp” is spelt incorrectly, these kind of spelling errors always make me smile – whoever wrote the sign obviously knows how to say laundry shop in English, but has just written it exactly how you would say it. I applaud the owners of this sign, not only have they managed to write the Spanish correctly (which is often not the case) but they have also managed to write the English in such a way that, it is at least understandable.

Yollmary tells us that she found the sign on the outskirts of La Romana, this is what she says about the sign: “Loudry (instead of Laundry) and Shopp (double P) maybe is a BIG Shop!”

NOTE: This and all ‘Only in the DR’ posts are light-hearted and are meant to be read as such. In this country there are MANY problems with literacy, poverty and much more. We believe that these things do need to be changed and we support 100% the Fundacion MIR and the Hogar del Niño and all other charities who are working hard to reduce these problems. Ignoring these problems will not make them go away – and pointing them out in a light-hearted manner only helps to highlight these problems so that more steps can be made to eradicate them completely.