So, last week Colorado State University (my alma mater) started distributing 50,000 pairs of ISO-rated solar eclipse viewing glasses. However, one embarrassing typo led to the glasses being label with the “College of Natural Sceinces.” Scientists and engineers are not always known for their spelling right? All I can think about now is Brian Regan’s take on the I-before-E rule.

I’m not sure if the fault lies in someone at CSU not proof-reading, their printer, or even a prank. But it doesn’t really matter, I give ‘em props for giving out 50,000 pair of eclipse glasses. (It seems like finding them in stores is like trying to find a cabbage patch kid in the late 80s at Christmas time.) And these are the legit, NASA-certified glasses too, not some of the fake ones that have been making headlines and headaches all over the place.

Thanks to a simple typo, we can all enjoy a light-hearted ribbing of my college and people trying to pronounce, “See-I-ence” and look at the sun on Monday without searing our retinas.

Added bonus, I now have solar eclipse viewing glasses and didn’t have to shell out $20. Best typo ever.

Quick spelling lesson from Wikipedia:
“I before E, except after C” is a mnemonic rule of thumb for English spelling. If one is unsure whether a word is spelled with the sequence ei or ie, the rhyme suggests that the correct order is ie unless the preceding letter is c, in which case it is ei.