It’s typo season on Smith Hill.

With bills and budget amendments changing on the fly, grammatical mistakes are everywhere. Your high school English teacher would cringe.

Some of the errors are innocuous, while others have serious implications for the substance of the legislation. And then there are those that are just plain funny.

Take today’s instance: A bill proposing the creation of a scholarship program to encourage participation in the area of early childhood development says the scholarship would go to educators “who work with children from birth to age five who have an associate’s or bachelor’s degree in early childhood education.”

Five-year-olds with college degrees? Pretty impressive, we think.

-- Cynthia Needham, Journal State House Bureau