(Tip o' the hat to London's "Mirror":http://www.mirror.co.uk/) Britney Spears really needs to start learning from her mistakes, especially when the results are permanent.

Husbands can be erased easily enough but tattoos are much harder to remove - and the singer has messed up yet another of hers.

The 22-year-old has had a series of Hebrew symbols etched into the back of her neck in an act of devotion to Kabbalah, the mystical form of Judaism she was introduced to by Madonna.

But unfortunately for her they are absolute gibberish.

Says a source: "She had hoped it would say new year or new era. It seems she's got the words the wrong way round."

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