How Do You Spell "12" ?

(The Mercury News 5/31).  In honor of the National Spelling Bee, which starts Wednesday, Google decided to see what words people in each of the 50 states struggle to spell.  To do this, it looked at Google searches of “how to spell ______” in each of the states from Jan. 1 to April 30, 2017. Whatever word filled that blank most often in each state became denoted as that state’s “most misspelled word.”

http://www.mercurynews.com/201...

Alabama: pneumonia

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: Wisconsin

Wyoming: priority




Wisconsin is my favorite


If you don't know how to spell twelve, how are you likely to spell it?


There, fixed the title of the thread.  Frankly, I'm having trouble understanding why this would be the leading NJ spelling question.

Tom_Reingold said:

If you don't know how to spell twelve, how are you likely to spell it?



@jasmo, I'm serious. How is a New Jerseyan likely to misspell the word? Chwelve?


Twelf? 

Telth? 

Twelvth? 

Or perhaps 12th? 


I'm wondering if some of these higher frequency lookups occur based on homework assignments? 

 If I want to lookup a word spelling I can type it in directly (or go to Dictionary.com).  Typing in “how to spell ______” is not necessary, and seems like something those less experienced with google or computers might do.


Twelve is definately not the word I see misspelled most frequently.



Tom_Reingold said:

If you don't know how to spell twelve, how are you likely to spell it?

In New Jersey it's spelled "Bon Jovi"


How about COLLEGE (the school)...many people going to college saying they are going to collage.

And PAYED.  People keep insisting they PAYED a bill.

a lot of misspelling in searches are just fast typing/typos.  I do that frequently, knowing it will still search what I need so I don't bother to change it.   I might type wtelve accidentally.



lanky said:

Twelve is definately not the word I see misspelled most frequently.

Tha'ts my horrid , scary word. Even spelling it incorrectly doesn't help cause spell check still can't figure out what i mean. But each time I do spell it "The president and a small group of people know exactly what I meant."



librarylady said:



lanky said:

Twelve is definately not the word I see misspelled most frequently.

Tha'ts my horrid , scary word. Even spelling it incorrectly doesn't help cause spell check still can't figure out what i mean. But each time I do spell it "The president and a small group of people know exactly what I meant."

Thank you for the chuckle.

TomR


These are the top 4 options I got when typing this out.  pneumonia sounds like one that would be high up on this list - in general.



jamie said:

These are the top 4 options I got when typing this out.  pneumonia sounds like one that would be high up on this list - in general.

These are my top three results--not sure why it only gave me three. But "leprechaun"? Why did that come up?

Eta: I hit space and it came up with a fourth: "hallelujah."



I will admit that I use google to figure out how to spell diarrhea.


From here in Wisconsin, I got...

cancelled

library

desert

90

Leprechaun was also down there a ways.  On the original list, maybe "Wisconsin" was a typo???  Anyhow, fun.



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