Indian Lias =link= May 2026

It started as a typo. I was trying to write “Indian lies” (as in, the little white lies we tell ourselves about productivity), but autocorrect gave me “Lias.” I liked it better.

Have you ever stumbled across a phrase that feels like a ghost in the machine? I found one last week while digitizing old colonial航海 logs: indian lias

At first, I thought it was a typo for “Indian Liaison” or perhaps a misspelling of a ship name. But the context was purely geological. The 1847 document referenced the “Indian Lias” as a specific stratum of blue-grey limestone found near the Coromandel Coast. It started as a typo