“MAKE IT SEEMLESS!”

Adjectives, Misspellings

I saw this in a message from a supervisor to other employees.

Problem:
The word “seemless” — spelled S-E-E-M-L-E-S-S — is nonsensical.

Explanation:
The supervisor was trying to tell the other employees that customer care should be smooth — that effectively it should have no seams — spelled S-E-A-M-S — for the customer.

That gives us the solution.

For fun, I searched Google for each of the following words (without the quotation marks) and got about the indicated numbers of matches:

  • “seamless” — spelled S-E-A-M-L-E-S-S — 33,600,000 matches
  • “seemless” — spelled S-E-E-M-L-E-S-S — 794,000 matches

This tells me that Web authors favor the correctly spelled “seamless” over the misspelled “seemless” by a ratio of 42.3:1 — good, but not great, especially given the nearly one million matches for the misspelled word.

Solution:
“MAKE IT SEAMLESS!”