{"id":664391,"date":"2025-12-31T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664391\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:33:22","slug":"edinburgh-airport-misspells-andrew-carnegies-name-on-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664391\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Airport misspells Andrew Carnegie&#8217;s name on banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The quote reads: &#8220;There is no habitation of human beings in this world so fine in its way as this, the capital of Scotland.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Other banners include quotes from Alan Rickman and Charlotte Bront\u00eb.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The error was spotted by an eagle-eyed traveller, who later posted their findings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/?feed=home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reddit<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Why have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a> Airport spelt his name like an American,&#8221; the user jokingly asked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One commentor on the now-deleted post said: &#8220;Mistakes happen but you&#8217;d hope someone would have noticed this before it was up on the wall for everyone to see.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another added: &#8220;Sign writers make gaffs all the time, which is deplorable.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/dunfermline-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dunfermline<\/a> in 1835, Carnegie was a leading figure in the development of the American steel industry in the late-19th century\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read more:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He moved to the United States in 1848, but never forgot the people of Scotland, donating thousands to fund libraries and other community buildings across the nation, including in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a>, where he built a $250,000 free library.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Responding to the spelling faux pas, a spokesperson for Edinburgh Airport said:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cTeams are already looking to replace this, and we thank passengers for their feedback to allow us to correct.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quote reads: &#8220;There is no habitation of human beings in this world so fine in its way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-664391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115813495886983906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}