Yep, you read that right. The top Google Search term, with over 30,000,000 hits in a single month, is for “hight schol”.
Now if you’re like me, I can’t even begin to overstate the obvious. An occasional misspelling of high school is bound to happen in our modern fast paced society, where people not only suffer from the ubiquitous FFS (that’s fat finger syndrome for the rest of you), but many don’t even bother to check for spelling errors anymore. But can you believe 30,000,000 in one month??
So to add insult to injury, I guess they just expect the rest of us to figure out what they really meant. Fortunately Google deals with that for them. In fact “deal with it” seems to be the modern mantra for our online texting society. And many typos are so often repeated, they are actually becoming widely accepted texting abbreviations.
Of course if you’re super pessimistic, you might choose to believe that the above reveals 30,000,000 people actually can’t spell high school. I choose to believe the former, as it would otherwise be way too depressing to contemplate a generation of kids getting ready for high school, who can’t even spell it! Read the rest of this entry »
