Kazakhstan to circulate new money even though 'bank' is misspelled on notes

[yllus]

Kazakhstan to circulate new money even though 'bank' is misspelled on notes

The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word "bank" on its new notes, officials said yesterday. The bank plans to put the misprinted notes -- worth 2,000 tenge ($17.81) and 5,000-tenge -- into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the spelling.

The move has drawn the ire of the Central Asian state's politicians who urged the bank to abandon the notes altogether. "The mistake ... is not just a spelling problem -- it has political undertones," a letter from members of parliament to President Nursultan Nazarbayev said. On the new note, the word "bank" was written with an alternate Kazakh form of the letter K, which has a slightly different pronunciation.

That's just embarassing.

 

[MisterJackson]

Maybe the whole "Borat" schtick isn't that far off base