Those who don't know French or have never been abroad can't even guess that there's a spelling error in their driver's license. The French word for "driver's license" "PERMIS DE CONDUIRE" is written with a spelling error ("COUNDUIRE").
One of our readers, who is working in France sent us a letter saying that living abroad, he evades showing his driver's license to anyone because, in his words, he is ashamed.
To find out whether the spelling error has been corrected or not, "A1+" addressed Chief of Road Police Margar Ohanyan. "If he is ashamed now, we have been ashamed for a long time," said Mr. Ohanyan. It turns out that Road Police noticed this error right after printing the plastic driver's licenses.
"The previous workers printed 700,000 of them, but the government didn't have the necessary 2 million dollars to correct the error. We thought about it and decided that 2 million dollar was not a large amount to correct the error. We decided that the new plastic driver's licenses would be correct. The language inspectorate should take care of that issue," said Margar Ohanyan.
He also informed that those who are ashamed of showing their Armenian driver's licenses abroad can use the international driver's license which doesn't have any spelling errors, according to Margar Ohanyan.
Perhaps "A1+"'s reader wouldn't have touched upon the spelling error in his driver's license granted in 2002 if he hadn't seen the same error in his daughter's driver's license 8 years later.
"We will have new driver's licenses starting January 1 and the issue of the international driver's license has been solved," said the Chief of Road Police.
Source: The Armenian News by A1+
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