'National Embarrassment': Indians Upset After Singapore's Ambassador Points Out Spelling Error on Delhi Signage

Singapore’s Ambassador to India Simon Wong took to his official ‘X’ handle and shared a spelling mistake done by MCD Delhi in a signage. On a board in one of the Delhi roads, Singapore has been spelt as ‘Singapur’. The board is close to the embassy of Vietnam. While sharing the image on ‘X’, Simon wrote, “It is always good to spell check first.”

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He also tagged the New Delhi Municipal Council Official and Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Since being uploaded, the image has gone viral with over 225K views. Here, have a look for yourself:

“This is nothing. Most of the Punjabi translations of signages in Delhi are outright wrong. Have complained multiple times, but nothing changes,” commented an ‘X’ user. Another person wrote,”It is what happens when people translate from Hindi words to English.. Common mistakes in all regional languages.”

Many people mentioned how most of the Indians pronounce it as ‘Singapur.’ “I would say, before highlighting it here, could have done it right by telling some subordinate,” commented another person. Many people were embarrassed as to how this reflects badly on the country.

Here are a few responses:

Just when the post immediately went viral, Delhi MCD made sure that they fix the error. In a recent post, Mr Wong took to ‘X’ and thanked NDMC for fixing the error. Here, have a look:

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What do you think?