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Funny signs at an `eloping’ center

See what a missing letter can do to a sign!

Eloping center?

I don’t need to tell you where I got this sign, right?

My “funny signs” instinct got the better of me, so I read the other signs at the “eloping” center and noticed this most-often-but-ungrammatical use of the word layout.

Layouting? Laying out!

Notice what’s wrong with the word? The correct term is laying out, although I have to concede that the term layouting is now popularly used, and that in due time it will find its way in the English dictionary.

On a related note, you cannot say that a page has been layouted, because the correct term is laid out; in the same way that a person who gets fired is not layoffed but laid off.

That’s all for now. Thank you for reading!