Voting Closed: We have a winner!
The members of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar have spoken, and by a huge margin, the misspelled monument at the Jackson Creek Baptist Church cemetery in Columbia, South Carolina wins the SPOGG Award for the Worst Grammar in the United States.There's something monumentally bad about an error chiseled in stone, and it's not clearly something the members of SPOGG took for granite granted.
Chris Cole, who sent in the winning photo, said, "I feel proud and yet semi-nauseous simultaneously! A delightfully dubious honor if ever there was one!"
Columbia's mayor, Bob Coble, did not respond to an interview request.
We had two runners up. The first, submitted by J. Paulson, is a letter written by a teacher in Bismarck, North Dakota. The all-capital letters set off alarm bells, but the spelling—"thru" and "advertizement"—are definitely detention-worthy.
The second, sent in by Mark Hartz, is a screenshot of a badly crafted news headline from an NBC affiliate in San Luis Obispo. The headline, about a tragic plane crash, makes it seem as though the girl who survived killed her dad and sister.
