- Visitor signs at Durdle Door, Dorset were translated incorrectly into Hindi
- Estate bosses left red-faced when visitor said it read bull****’ instead of rubbish
- Signs started being written in Hindi after Bollywood film was shot there in 2015
A Hindi-speaking visitor to a coastal beauty spot was left stumped when he saw a sign telling him to ‘not leave his bull**** on the beach’.
Visitor signs at Durdle Door on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast have been translated into Hindi since 2015 after the coastal beauty spot featured in the Bollywood film Housefull 3.
The anti-litter signs are correctly written for Spanish and Polish visitors, but the Hindi one appears to have been lost in translation.
Taking the term ‘rubbish’ literally, the sign asks visitors not to leave their ‘bull****’ or ‘nonsense’ on the sand.
Puneet Sharma spotted anti-litter signs at Durdle Door in Dorset were translated into Hindi to read: ‘Do not leave your bull*** on the beach’ instead of saying rubbish
The error was spotted by Puneet Sharma who posted a picture of one of the signs for the Lulworth Estate.
He commented: ‘During a visit to the beach I saw this board and noticed the Hindi script – it was quite hilarious.’
Speaking to the BBC, he added: ‘If you are having a casual conversation with a friend and he says something unbelievable you would reply with this word.’
Site managers for the Lulworth estate have apologised for the error and said they are looking to get it corrected as soon as possible.
Caroline Sharp of the Lulworth estate told the Dorset Echo: ‘Now we are aware of the error, we will do an audit of the signs in the area and will go around taking pictures then changing them when necessary.
‘They will eventually be taken down and temporarily replaced with strip signs.’
‘Thank goodness someone alerted us to it.’
Visitor signs at Durdle Door (pictured) on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast have been translated into Hindi since 2015 after the coastal beauty spot featured in the Bollywood film Housefull 3
She added: ‘We try make the signs accessible to other languages by including a number of different languages.
‘We have seen an increase in the numbers of visitors from South Asia coming to the area due to the Bollywood effect. There has been a lot of filming on Durdle Door and in Lulworth.
‘There is a big litter problem in Lulworth and we try to get people to dispose of their rubbish.
‘If you go to tourist attractions in Dorset, I bet we are probably not the only one with a mistranslation.’
Durdle door is visited by thousands of people every year and is renowned across the world for its impressive limestone arch.
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