How spelling can get you into serious trouble

I’m sure, you could start a lengthy conversation with HannaH about the importance of using the correct spelling and grammar.  No offence Han, but this conversation probably does have the capacity to bore a person to death.  Let me explain what HannaH would say by using an example instead, one that’ll make you laugh.
As usual, I’m supervising the library computer room in the morning, keeping an eye on the game players, and giving a hand to the people who need it.  Katie (in year 7) calls me over and tells me she’s having trouble with her food technology homework.  She needs just one more exciting vegetable.  She rambles off a list of the ones she already has, and I think to myself I haven’t heard of half of them.  I rack my brains for a moment and it comes to me.  Popeye!  He eats spinach, and it makes his muscles grow instantly!  I tell Katie this, and that she should look up SPINACH.  She chooses Popeye, but spells it wrong, and before I can stop her, she has already pressed enter, and google is bringing up the filthy results in a busy room full of  people.  I’m taken by surprise and try page down, in the hope the second half of the results may be just a little less… fleshy.  Luck is against me, its worse, much worse.  In a frantic panic I try the magic Start + D, but miss the start key and hit Alt instead.  Puzzled why nothing has happened, I try backspace, which has little effect, except remove a small part of the hideously long search addresses google uses.  <Groan>  Eventually Katie finally turned on, and got rid of the screen very slowly using the mouse.  (I had taken over the keyboard when she had started to type in a new web address).  So there is my warning, make sure you spell your searches right!

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