Photo: TwitterThe Social Democrats (SPD) have been left red-faced after making a simple spelling mistake in an advert bragging about their educational achievements in North Rhine-Westphalia. “No child left behind!” shouts the SPD election advert, which was published in the Mülheimer Woche recently. The advert counts the ways in which the SPD has invested in education over the past seven years. But some Germans clearly confuse the two, and thus the mnemonic seid ist sein und seit ist time has been created to help them remember. The most recent polling by public broadcasters ARD and ZDF shows the two parties neck-and-neck in Germany’s most populous state.

Source: The Local May 08, 2017 09:00 UTC