To be frank, we cannot blame Americans. English is such a language where some words are pronunciated in an entirely different way than they are spelt. For example, rendezvous, which is pronounced like run-they-who, or repertoire which goes all out in rehp-uh-twah-r.
Bringing Americans to quite a great embarrassment, Google has released a list of top most misspelt words in America based on data collected from January through April of this year. We have to say, the timing is perfect. Just in time for the National Spelling Bee, where children as young as eight years old break down words that most of us have never even heard of or used, Google released a list dubbed "America's most misspelled words."
Before jumping onto those 50 American regions, it is Google, who needs a little spelling help themselves. The tech giant made a very silly mistake in the list. Though Google corrected the error later, the company spelt 'ninety' as 'nintey.' It happens Google, its ok.
America's most misspelled words - it's #spellingbee week and we mapped top "how to spell" searches by state#dataviz pic.twitter.com/oHkRHj8Eku
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) May 30, 2017
Apparently, residents in North Carolina had the most difficulty spelling "angel," while Wisconsinites had a tough time spelling their own state's name.
Come on #Sconnies, you don't know how to spell the name of your own state? #Wisconsin pic.twitter.com/T5brVBTlqQ — Cullen C. Rude (@Crude_Chronicle) May 30, 2017
The words listed ranged in difficulty from legitimate ones like "pneumonia" (Washington), "diarrhoea" (New Hampshire), and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (Virginia and Connecticut), "sauerkraut" (Pennsylvania), to some as short as "banana" (New Mexico) and "gray" (Georgia), which is downright depressing. California, Minnesota, Ohio and New York are messed up the most with word “beautiful.”
How the hell is beautiful the most spelled word in NY? Bruce spells it out for us, and the movie is set in New York! pic.twitter.com/uA9p4po6zi
— Kyle James (@OfficialKJM) May 30, 2017
We are just unable to imagine the situation if Google would ever do this with Indians?