What usually happens when you write a cheque? You carefully fill in the amount, sign it, and the bank clears it without trouble. But one cheque, issued by the principal of Government Senior Secondary School in Ronhat, Himachal Pradesh, has gone viral, not for the money it carried, but for the bizarre words written on it.

Instead of the correct ₹7,616, the cheque read: “Saven Thursday six Harendra sixty rupees only.” The amount in numbers was right, but the words turned into such a jumble that the bank immediately rejected it.

The cheque, dated September 25, was meant to pay a Mid-Day Meal worker. But the words written on it stunned everyone, “Saven” instead of “Seven,” “Thursday” in place of “Thousand,” “Harendra” for “Hundred,” and “Sixty” instead of “Sixteen.”

Put together, the line

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