Google has released its 2017 map of the most misspelled words by state:
- Alaska: schedule
- Arizona: tomorrow
- Arkansas: chihuahua
- California: beautiful
- Colorado: tomorrow
- Connecticut: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Delaware: hallelujah
- Washington, D.C. : ninety
- Florida: receipt
- Georgia: gray
- Hawaii: people
- Idaho: quote
- Illinois: pneumonia
- Indiana: hallelujah
- Iowa: vacuum
- Kansas: diamond
- Kentucky: beautiful
- Louisiana: giraffe
- Maine: pneumonia
- Maryland: special
- Massachusetts: license
- Michigan: pneumonia
- Minnesota: beautiful
- Mississippi: nanny
- Missouri: maintenance
- Montana: surprise
- Nebraska: suspicious
- Nevada: available
- New Hampshire: difficult
- New Jersey: twelve
- New Mexico: bananas
- New York: beautiful
- North Carolina: angel
- North Dakota: dilemma
- Ohio: beautiful
- Oklahoma: patient
- Oregon: sense
- Pennsylvania: sauerkraut
- Rhode Island: liar
- South Carolina: chihuahua
- South Dakota: college
- Tennessee: chaos
- Texas: maintenance
- Utah: disease
- Vermont: Europe
- Virginia: delicious
- Washington: pneumonia
- West Virginia: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- Wisconsin: tomorrow
- Wyoming: priority
2 comments
I can see why some of the words might be misspelled. But how could anyone have trouble spelling short words like liar and angel? Do they spell them as lier and anjel?
When I was in elementary school, there was such a huge emphasis on Spelling that I would never have been promoted to the next grade if I had gotten any of those words wrong, (with the exception of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ). I don’t believe that one was ever on my spelling tests!
I heard most Marylanders couldn’t spell “tax cut” even if you spotted them 5 letters.
And, really, why are people in Louisiana writing about giraffes?