By Victor Skinner
EAGnews.org

Ottawa, Ont. – Passers-by might have thought that a Canadian secondary school was renamed after an American pop singer when they viewed a new sign that was posted in front of the school Saturday.

Cairine Wilson Secondary School in the Ottawa-Carleton school district – named in honor of the first woman in the Canadian Senate – was accidently referred to as Carnie Wilson Secondary School this weekend when workers erected a new sign for the start of the new school year, the Daily Mail reports.

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An amused vandal painted a giant arrow on the sign and scrawled “yup!” to point out that the missing letter renamed the school after Carnie Wilson – lead singer of the 1990s American pop band Wilson Phillips.

Several people poked fun at the mix-up on Facebook, while school officials attempted to play down the misspelling.

“I was gonna say, you must have hired the kids that didn’t graduate to do the sign,” wrote Niklas Fysh, the news site reports.

“Jesus. I just noticed the spelling mistake. Heads will roll,” John Shea, a school board trustee, wrote on Facebook. “I think people in Orleans are having a pretty good chuckle about it. Obviously the school is named after the first female senator, not the lead singer of Wilson Phillips.”

Shea blamed the misspelling on the manufacturing company, or the staff at the school board office, the news site reports.

The school board has since fixed the sign.