It seems the grocery chain Publix wasn’t very excited about celebrating a graduating senior’s summa cum laude status. Students who graduate in the top 1-to 5-percent of their class are awarded the distinction summa cum laude, Latin for “with the highest distinction,” but apparently Publix didn’t get the memo. A mother of a graduating senior ordered a cake to celebrate her son’s academic achievement—only to find it was censored by the bakery.
“The Lakeland-based Publix edited out ‘cum’—in this context the Latin word for “with”—since it was deemed profane by its website’s algorithm,” reports Gaily Grind. The mother told The Washington Post that her son was “absolutely humiliated” by the error. Instead of the word “cum,” the cake had three dashes, the way a profane word would be edited when appearing in print. “It was unbelievable. I ordered the special graduation edition cake. I can’t believe I’m the first one to ever write ‘Summa Cum Laude’ on a cake,” she said.
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