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'Voice Principal': Misspelled School Vice Head Title Has SA Bursting With Laughter

Wednesday, September 08, 2021 at 5:06 PM by Tshepiso Mametela

A pic doing the rounds on social media shows someone painting the vice principal's title above the door frame at a school and getting it completely wrong
The simple four-letter word was instead spelt 'voice principal', giving it a completely different meaning
The tweet attracted nearly 500 likes, more than 180 retweets and close to 100 comments as Mzansi reacted to the buffoonery

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How a simple spelling mistake happens, especially if one had all the time in the world to get it right, is a mystery, but as we can all relate to, it happens.

A pic doing the rounds on social media shows someone painting the vice principal's title above the door frame at a school.

Misspelt, Pic, Social media, Painting, Vice principal, Title, Door frame, School, Wrong, Voice principal, Different — How a simple spelling mistake happens, especially if one had all the time in the world to get it right, is a mystery, but as we can all relate to, it happens. Image: @dayveedcody_/ Twitter.
Source: Twitter

As it happens, an exercise that should have been a small matter of getting a simple four-letter word right turned into a complete farce as a Twitter user, @dayveedcody_ observed.

Mzansi reacts to buffoonery

Briefly News scanned through the hilarious comments to bring readers the reactions.

@simmssssss said:

"Na only mouth the principal get."

@Honiitel wrote"

"Maybe him too dey para."

@iamdesmond___ reasoned:

"It's another office that's different from the vice. Its major work is shouting at students."

@iam_six_ voiced:

"That must be a written error, lol."

@Gorge_Diamond jibed:

"Queens English."

@Vikswit added:

"The principal can only talk with no actions."

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