There are smart people everywhere, especially in this country, they just weren’t included in this data sample. Finally, Mississippi spells “Nanny” wrong and Rhode Island can't grasp "Liar." Please tell me this is a lie.Īnyway, suffice it to say that this isn’t indicative of Americans writ large. North Carolina doesn’t spell “Angel” right, and Tennessee can’t spell “chaos,” which is weird, because “Tennessee” is way harder to spell than “chaos.” Georgia spells “Gray” incorrectly, because they’re probably taking cues from English people, who spell literally everything wrong. Idaho looks up “quote,” because W makes a reasonable substitute for U, at least in a purely phonetic sense. There aren’t that many, so let’s discuss them at once: Oregon can’t spell “sense,” which makes sense only if you confuse one of the five senses with hard currency or a fragrance. Next, there’s the states that struggle with words between 1 and 5 letters. This better be a cruel joke or the Vikings are totally going to win the Super Bowl next year. Search results are normalized to the time and location of a query by the following process: Each data point is. This, my midwestern friends, is unacceptable, so let me spell it out for you: W-I-S-C-O-N-S-I-N. Google Trends normalizes search data to make comparisons between terms easier. Yes, according to the map, people in Wisconsin can’t spell the word “Wisconsin,” even though it’s literally scrawled across all state ID’s, government buildings, and most places you can look with two eyes. There are some spelling mishaps that are more understandable - Michigan struggles with “pneumonia,” for example - but everything here is eclipsed by Wisconsin, because Wisconsin can’t even spell “Wisconsin,” correctly. In this cohort of states, we have Oklahoma (“patient”), California (“beautiful”), Arkansas (“chihuahua”), and Nebraska (“suspicious”), among the majority of other states across the county. Google’s Trends data cited the most common “how to” spelling searches for 2017 by state, finding that most Americans search for words between 6 to 10 letters long.
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