The Nation's most mis-spelled wrods

In a world increasingly going insanely stupid, it does the heart good to come up with a story that is just innocently stupid.  That's where I come in today!  I found this article on Business Insider in which it says, in honor of the National Spelling Bee, Google rounded up the most searched words as far as "how to spell", and divvied them up for each state.

I knew this would be a really fun article when I came to the first state- alphabetically, natch:

ALABAMA: Cousin


I mean, it could have only been better had the state been Kentucky.  You can just see the (Non-PC: if you are easily offended, please leave now) hillbilly jokes:  "Why, just spell it sister/mom/granny..."

So moving on, there were some unique-to-one-state words, and some multiples.  Let me start from the multiples with this journey...

BEAUTIFUL:  By far the most looked up; no less than ELEVEN states had trouble with it- Arizona, Arkansas, California (so much for leftist intellectualism and tree-hugging naturalists), Illinois, INDIANA (for pity's sake), Maryland, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.  And just on a whim, I looked this up- no less than 5 of the 15 most beautiful states as ranked by Thrillist- California, Utah, North Carolina, Arizona, and Washington- don't know the spelling of the word.


SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS:  Seriously?  This isn't even a WORD, people!!!  Nevertheless, it was the most popular spelling request by 6 states- Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, and Texas.  Don't y'all have better things to worry about?

RESUMÈ:  I chuckled at Colorado, the land of legal pot, needing this one.  I snickered when New Jersey followed suit.  But I guffawed with a hardy WTH when the business capital of the world, New York, joined them! 

The rest of the multiples were all two-fers:


CANCELLED:  Maryland and Oklahoma.  Which of these is Roseanne from?

SINCERELY:  I bet Ken Lynch would appreciate that Connecticut is one of these.  Missouri, too.

PERMANENT(LY):  Washington DC without, New Mexico with.  DC's prolly being skewed by all the "Swamp rats" trying to tell their blogs, "I thought my job was perminint..."

SCHEDULE: The always procrastinating states of Pennsylvania (sorry, Bob and Ken), and Tennessee.


And that leaves us with the singletons...

Alaska- Veteran.  Just like you say it, guys...
Delaware: Decision. What, you think it has two Ss or something?
Florida- Hors d'oeuvre.  I'm not throwing stones on this one.  I screwed up three times trying to copy it into my notes, and once more typing it here...
Hawaii- Grateful.  Proud to say I doubted myself on this one only once.
Idaho- Businesses.  See, now, Delaware prolly stole one of your Ss.
Iowa:  Vacuum.  Explains why Rug Doctor is so popular there.
Kansas- Consequences.  Well, I suppose since we don't have Bob Barker showing us anymore...

Kentucky:  Definitely.  And I can't even make fun of 'em; I only bat about 50-50 on this stupid word.
Louisiana- Favorite.  Well, if you pop out a syllable in "Louzziana", I imaging it's no trick to pop one out of "favrite".
Maine: I'm gonna save this one for the end, because it gave me my second-biggest laugh...
Mississippi- Gray.  I would have thought it would be "Mississippi".
Montana: Tomorrow.  Spell like there's no tommorow, fellas.
Nebraska- Nocturnal. Speaks to the night life in Omaha, I guess...
Nevada:  Probably.  Keep messing it up with probability, I suppose.
New Hampshire- Subtle.  Don't suttle for less.
North Dakota: Yacht.  That makes sense.  Why would anyone there ever need TO spell yacht?
Rhode Island- Dying.  Seriously?
South Carolina: Beginning.  As in beginning the Nullification crisis, beginning the Civil War...
South Dakota: Chaos.  Prolly speaks to the nightlife in Pierre.
Vermont- Solution.  How many ways is there TO spell solution?
West Virginia- Apparel.  So just go buy "clothes".
Wyoming:  I'm really embarrassed on this one- Fiancè.  Why?  And remember, a female fiancée has two e's.  I didn't know that...

Oh, and Maine's word?




Connecticut.  Howdy, ... er, neighbor!