What a difference an L makes.

It can turn a bet into a belt, or a mat into a malt. It can bog down your blog or put a clog in your cog. Rea Pearlman isn’t her Real name, and while you might like Ike, no one would watch a show called Famiy Guy.

But the real L that I want to discuss is the L in my name. It’s the L that turns Heath into Health and Health into Heath. Most spell checks will correct someone typing in Heath, and try to make it Health. They just insist on shoving that L in there where it doesn’t belong. And I don’t know about you, but I don’t know that many people who like getting an L shoved in them. Well, I do know some people like that – Ike likes it.

I have several alerts that…alert me when someone searches on “heath” or “heath buckmaster”. I also have alerts on “digital heath” since that’s the domain that hosts this blog. It’s amazing some of the hits I get for people who are really trying to refer to digital HEALTH, but have mistakenly left out the L.

MSNBC did this not that long ago, and here’s what it looked like on the front page of the website:

If you look closely (and follow the big red/yellow arrow I drew), you will see that MSNBC had a very important article right there on the front page. And I have to say, I totally agree with their message. “Few Americans follow heath advice.” I couldn’t agree more. More people need to listen to me. I say important things people!

What a difference an L makes, huh? And I was lucky enough to get a screen shot of it before someone ran a spell check and realized that in this one particular case, an L needed a good shoving.

To finally hammer home my point of the importance of knowing when to, and when not to shove an L up in there, I present to you this very famous passage:

Mr. land Mrs. Dursey, of number flour, Privet Drivel, were proud to slay that they were perfecty norma, thank you very mulch. They were the ast peope you’d expect to be invoved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hod with such nonsense.

I’ll spare you the rest…it gets a lot worse. Don’t forget your L’s!!!