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How Do You Spell? It Turns Out We All Need to Ask

Google releases map of the most misspelled words. Some may surprise you.

The Scripps National Spelling Bee just ended, after once again torturing young kids, forcing them to hang their heads in shame as they failed to spell words like "Wehrmacht" and "bailliage," and "vasopressin."

It turns out... we all have words we cannot spell.

Google has released a map showing the most misspelled words by state.

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What they did is compiled data based on the search "How do you spell."

And some of the words may surprise you.

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Oregon has problems with "definitely."

The most common search in Massachusetts? How do you spell Massachusetts?"

California, Indiana, Connecticut, and Utah all have trouble with "desert" though it's not clear if people were looking for more sand or ice cream.

Wisconsin residents want to know about broccoli. Maybe it was covered with cheese it would be easier to spell?

New Yorkers have trouble with "beautiful" which could easily be an issue for a therapist.

New Hampshire, meanwhile, apparently has a problem with "diarrhea," which can't be good for tourism.

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