{"id":56653,"date":"2015-08-24T19:07:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/?p=56653"},"modified":"2015-08-24T19:07:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T19:07:39","slug":"unfortunate-spelling-error-reads-welcome-to-penis-island-in-gaelic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=56653","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate Spelling error, reads \u2018Welcome to Penis Island\u2019 in Gaelic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56654\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56654\" alt=\"oops :-)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/penis.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"418\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">oops \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A newly erected sign (sorry for this awful pun) had the Gaelic community in stitches today. \u00a0A Gaelic spelling error means the first thing visitors to the isle of Bute see is a big sign saying, \u2018Welcome to Penis Island\u2019.<br \/>\nFor the record, Bute, in the Firth of Clyde, is not known for the number or size of the penises to be found there.<br \/>\nA missing accent on the sign changed Bh\u00f2id meaning Bute to \u201cBod\u201d \u2013\u00a0Gaelic for penis.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook user Coinneach Combe wrote: \u2018What a mess. They had one job..\u2019<br \/>\nIsle of Bute Councillor Len Scouller said, \u2018It makes us look bloody stupid.<br \/>\n\u2018I\u2019m not a Gaelic speaker but I would apologise to people who are Gaelic speakers and we will rectify it right away.<br \/>\n\u2018It\u2019s beside the pier, it\u2019s where people are walking off the ferry. It\u2019s welcoming people to the island.<br \/>\n\u2018I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the big sign the council put up many, many years ago. It would probably be about 9 years ago, the exact day I don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder if they&#8217;ll keep it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly erected sign (sorry for this awful pun) had the Gaelic community in stitches today. \u00a0A Gaelic spelling error means the first thing visitors to the isle of Bute see is a big sign saying, \u2018Welcome to Penis Island\u2019. For the record, Bute, in the Firth of Clyde, is not known for the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1453],"class_list":["post-56653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish_jokes","tag-bute"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}