That becomes especially clear when businesses are advocating for clients through the distribution of materials.
Proper spelling does not reside in a “grey” (Massachusetts, New Jersey and Washington) area of professionalism.
No matter one’s “opinion” (greetings, Wisconsin residents!) on the matter, the “message” (Rhode Island) is clear. What, for example, is going on in Louisiana that “indict” tops the list, and why are we folks here in Pennsylvania unable to breath calmly, figuratively speaking, of course, when it’s time to spell “pneumonia”? It could be equally compelling to “guess” (sorry, not sorry, Maine residents) why certain words are even popular in particular states. It could be quite an interesting study to look at the qualities of the words, including length, silent letters and common usage, to see what trips people up about them and what they can do to solve those problems. Speaking of that figure of speech, we also saw that our fellow Americans botch, among others, “patient” (Arizona) and “embarrassed” (Idaho), two words that the whole spelling realm could cause someone to be. We would like to think that change is what confuses people and not the string of three vowels or the belief that the ending consists of a double “l.” Whatever the reason, “beautiful” makes many wince, but, hey, at least people are trying to be positive when looking for adjectives, right? So maybe people are catching on and realizing that we need to drop the “y” and add an “i” in assigning “beauty” an adjective form. The word topped the list in eight states, which is actually down from 11 last year. Promo Marketing has twice looked at Americans’ battles to be proofreading whizzes, so we are again wondering how “beautiful” manages to be such an ugly word to tackle. The #spellingbee starts soon! Here is a #map of America's top spelling searches for 2019. And, well, some of the victors are head-scratchers. Google Trends, however, is not letting our alphabet worries go unaddressed, again providing the nation with each state’s most perplexing word. In conjunction with the 92nd staging of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Google Trends has again revealed which words cause the most misery for the masses, with “beautiful” yet again emerging as the one that drives the most internet searches.Īs the competition transpires through Thursday, children from around the country will need to string together the right letters for some anxiety-inducing words, so we mere mortals who might struggle with common utterances should be happy that we are not still kids.
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But this year Arizona apparently often had to look up how to spell "tomorrow," meaning that in 2017, New Hampshire was all on its lonesome.We all like to pride ourselves on being multi-taskers, but being a spelling extraordinaire cannot be among everyone’s skillset. At least in 2016 the Granite State had some company, since diarrhea was Arizona's most-looked-up spelling as well. Some other insights via Google: South Dakota often looks up the spelling of "college" New Jersey apparently struggles with "twelve" South Carolina needed help with "chihuahua" while New Mexico needed a hand with "banana" and Massachusetts and West Virginia, for some reason, often look up how to spell " supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." (An act this writer also had to do for the word made famous by the classic Disney musical film Mary Poppins.)īut, back to New Hampshire: Perhaps there's something in the water, because diarrhea was the spelling it most often looked up last year as well.
#GOOGLE TRENDS SPELLING UPDATE#
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