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[Typo of the Day] Berber [Barber shop sign] - If I go there to have a haircut, will I be made over to look like a North African?

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[Typo of the Day] Well, not really a typo, along with some other posts in this series. Another example of multilingual chaos, this one: A clothing shop called NNN in English. Problem is, those 3 Ns, transliterated into the Georgian alphabet, look remarkably like 666. Numerologically superstitious foreigners, beware! Do you want to dress like you're in or from hell?!

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[Typo of the Day] Criminal Police [sign on their jackets] - In the past, it would have explained a lot. But now, in these battling-corruption years? The funny thing is, this one's an accurate translation of the Georgian. So there's another kind of miscommunication going on here.

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[Typo of the Day] Clot end Poker [Slot and Poker] - a cryptic enough sign to lure in the curious foreigner; the Georgian version seems to be correct

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[Typo of the day] Beauty Saloon - a unique merging of 2 very different establishments: Get yer beer or whiskey AND a manicure or touch up that hair colour all at the same time. A worryingly more common sign than it should be around town, likely more frequent than the correct spelling

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Welcome to my new blog entry category: TOTD = Typo of the Day, words & phrases I've seen around Tbilisi/Georgia as it struggles to throw off Russian & jump into the world of English as a second language... I'll try to add a new one every day.

The first discovery:

$EXCHANGE$ - all it needs is an extra space after the X to make it perfect