This is the contents of a mail I got from the Australian company Site Point today:

If you already know that 'HTML' stands for 'HyperText Markup Language' -- and I suspect you do -- you have permission to feel just a little bit smug today.
Because, according to a study by Vouchercloud.net, 11% of Americans surveyed believe that 'HTML' was a sexually-transmitted disease.
They also discovered:
18% believed a 'blu-ray' was a marine creature
27% thought a 'gigabyte' was a South American insect.
23% thought 'MP3' was a Star Wars robot.

Ha ha I do get lots from SitePoint myself and know they have a similar sense of humour to us, haven't got this email though, but I think it was probably very much tongue in cheek and if it wasn't even more funny

Sad, but Inger and the survey probably hit it on the head! Gads our school system sucks! If you ever watch 'Late Nite With David Letterman', sometimes he goes out on the street and asks strangers in New York simple questions like 'Who's our President' and these morons can't answer and don't know. Sad , Sad . . .

Thankfully some of us have drug induced intelligence!

Wow you would think anyone would know stuff like that. I know when some of our Prime Ministers have been across Americans can't answer which is quite pathetic really, the difference there is that we try to forget who the Prime Minister is but he is such a piece of work you can't

I was stationed in England when Maggie ran things. Everyone knew her and no one forgot! That lady was tops!!

A Turkish friend of mine was living in Detroit for some years, and he found out that a lot of people there were not able to point to which direction Canada is located.

Hilarious, did your Turkish friend also say that the Americans can't spell oh I'm going to be trouble it's colour not colo, it's humour not humor, however I like the way they do it, it's lazy and I like lazy

Its a good job your on that side of that pond Smoke, you would be hung strung and quartered in some sections of our society However I agree with you, she demanded respect and that's exactly what she got, I was in love with her when I was at school I thought she was lovely

My partner is British, and he agrees that Americans can't spell
But he also says that a lot of school children in Britain today haven't a clue who Winston Churchill was.

I drive a truck and train new drivers. The very first student I had was a pig farmer from Kansas. Born and raised on the farm he was trying to break out. Young, just married and had a new baby girl. Can't blame him for wanting a better life. But, he hadn't a clue where anything was. He could not tell you which way Missouri was from Kansas and they are right next to each other! Drove okay, spent 8 weeks with me learning how to read a map!



That was Mr. Winston who built the church at the top of the hill, right?

Naw, actually Winston Churchill visited Fulton, Missouri back during the war and spoke on the war. Wish I could have met him, but that was before my time. Barely!