Sherry writes:
This sign was all over a parking lot in Quincy, Massachusetts.Thanks, Sherry, for turning in this typo!
Of course, the correct verb is enforce, meaning to carry out. The police enforce the laws. As it turns out, inforce is not a word. But I happen to love this definition from Urban Dictionary:
inforced - Word used by an ignorant person trying to say something was put in force.
Person 1: Wow, she is an idiot.Correction:
Person 2: Why?
Person 1: She said a man's car insurance wasn't inforced yet.
Person 2: Oh wow, she is an idiot.
- Enforced 24 hours a day
This is not entirely true, particularly in the Person 1/Person 2 illustration above. "Inforce" in the insurance industry is commonly used and does have a meaning - although it is more proper to say the insurance wasn't "in force" rather than not "inforce" or "inforced". But agents will often refer to an "inforce" customer. "Enforce" would be incorrect in that situation.
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