An apparent translation error on posters promoting a City of Ottawa initiative is turning some heads in downtown Ottawa, swapping one French word for another with a very different meaning.

Several social media users pointed out a typo on the French-language signs promoting the initiative that read “Placettes Pubiques,” missing the letter “L” in “Publiques.”

It’s the equivalent of missing the same letter in the word “public” in English.

but they’ll be popular