Is it what she would have wanted? Residents left baffled after council makes hilarious spelling blunder while trying to honour late Queen Elizabeth with road sign

Stunned villagers have mocked their community after a road sign honoring the late queen was misspelled.

Locals in South Ferriby, north Lincolnshire, were left scratching their heads after the sign said ‘Queeen Elizabeth Avenue’ with an extra ‘e’.

Ronald Baldwin, 71, said it was ‘utterly pathetic’ that North Lincolnshire Council could make such a blunder.

Meanwhile, Claire Jennings, aged 43, said: ‘I wonder how many hands it has passed through, from the time it was made until two gentlemen installed it, without anyone noticing the mistake.’

Dean Molds, 32, had only thoughts for the late Queen Elizabeth II, saying: ‘What would the Queen think if she knew?’

The incorrect North Lincolnshire Council street sign had an extra ‘e’ in Queen

The local government blamed the extra “e” on “simple human error” and sent workers to remove the sign so it could be modified.

Dorothy Mills, 72, who saw it being removed, said: ‘The gentleman who brought it back yesterday morning said he should have checked it.’

It is not the first time that a municipality has been caught with a spelling error.

In January, Essex County Council came under fire after missing the ‘f’ in Chelmsford, on a new sign leading to a roundabout on the outskirts of the Essex town.

The municipality was forced to apologize to residents for the ‘unfortunate mistake’, according to the error appeared during printing and a replacement board would be installed as soon as possible.

The municipality blamed the blunder on a ‘simple human error’ and removed the sign for correction

Meanwhile, a group of ‘punctuation pedants’ won a year-long campaign last November to reinstate the apostrophe on their street sign, after Winchester City Council swapped it for an apostrophe that was grammatically incorrect.

Villagers were furious when they discovered the punctuation mark was missing from the new road furniture at St Mary’s Terrace in posh Twyford, Hampshire.

The city council, which made the change as part of a policy to make the signs easier to read, had to back down and retrieve the original, correct sign from the dump, renovate it and reinstall it.

And in May last year, clumsy workmen wrote a ‘Bus Slop’ sign on a road in Eastfield, near Scarborough.