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The Top Misspelled Word In DC Is...
Google compiled a list of what word each state struggles with the most, and D.C.'s entry may surprise you.
WASHINGTON, DC — What word does the District struggle the most at spelling than any other word? Thanks to a new report from Google, we now know the answer.
Washington, D.C.'s most misspelled word is: ninety.
Why? Who knows. Maybe people in D.C. think wistfully of when they went to school in the nineties but didn't really pay attention in class.
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No other state struggled with the word "ninety," but there was one other that had issues with spelling a number. New Jersey residents apparently have difficulty spelling "twelve," Google says.
Interestingly, there were two states -- Connecticut and West Virginia -- that found "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," the fake word from Mary Poppins.
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Here's the full list:
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: appreciate
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
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