A British grandmother, May Ashworth, must be the most polite Google searcher.

She wrote on Google search:

“Please translate these roman numerals mcmxcviii thank you".

The search was found by her grandchild Ben John, who was using the 86-year-old woman's laptop. He tweeted the grandmother’s endearing Google search, which soon went viral.

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