Mississippi might be showing sign of literacy improvement … but the person who misspelled Mississippi might want to think about enrolling in the program.
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I can’t say s*it,I can’t spell that mother%ucker either.
]: I have to admit that Mississippi is kinda hard for me to spell, too–though I’d expect better from a newspaper. Spell check? Isn’t this what editors are paid for? The article is just icing on the cake.
You are all retarded. You should have learned how to spell Mississippi by 5th grade at the latest. Morons.
Literacy is concerning the ability to read, not spell.
Actually Kate, literacy is the ability to read and write. If you can’t spell, then you can’t write. So yes, spelling is part of literacy.
Actually Steven, spelling takes no part in the ability to read.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
yep, you read that right, it says “i coulnt believe that i could actually understand what i was reading.”
see, you dont need to spell to read.
The writer was using “Hooked on Phonics” [Hukt on Foneks] for the spelling. Seems like most folks from south Mississippi pronounce it “Miss’ippi,” so maybe he was just trying to present the idea of a southern dialect to his readers. You can’t blame the writer for trying.
The Cartographer who misspelled Missippi as Mississippi on his map in the 1800′s is the problem. If you go to Mississippi you’ll find the natives pronounce it Missippi.
Actually Anthony, Steven’s comment said that you cannot write correctly if you cannot spell correctly. He did not say anything to imply that there must be correct spelling in order to read. Furthermore, the study you brought up with the misspelled words requires that the FIRST and LAST letters be in the correct place and ALL letters must be present. In this case, Missippi does not include all of the letters of Mississippi.
Austin’s right, 5th grade at the latest. Morons.
@ Anthony
Steven never said that you must know how to spell to read. I suggest you go back and re-read what he actually said.
This is what we call “reading comprehension” and/or retention.
Mi double S, i double s, double p, i
My me-maw was from Mississippi, she used to sing it all the time “em aye ess ess aye ess ess aye pee pee aye”. Never be able to forget it.
M i, crooked letter, crooked letter i, crooked letter, crooked letter i, hump back, hump back i. easy.
Now Worcestershire souce on the other hand…I can understand misspelling that one. I hate that word. No one can pronounce it correctly either.
Souce, like “sow-ss”
“dingo”, more like “dumbass”.
…I hope your lava lamp breaks and burns you.
You mean sauce. Like sorse. Also it’s pronounced “Woostersher” sauce. Like Leicestershire is pronounced “Lestersher” Americans. Please mangle us…
Mississippi’s easy to spell.
Emma come-a first.
I’s-a come-a next.
Two ass-a come-a together.
I’s-a comin’ again.
Two ass-a come-a together again.
I pee pee.a
I’s-a comin’ for da last-a time…
Mamma mia!
Looks like a headline copy-fitting issue to me.
PMon, I see your logic, but good editors can rearrange, reword, or resize headlines to fit the space. This error made me laugh so hard…mainly because it’s an AP story!
M – iss – iss – ipp – i. That’s how they taught us in elementary school. All the S’s and P’s are doubled.
ippississim
so nobody considered the idea that the headline writer of this article was just being ironic?
@ Chris
Considering the article is from Associated Press (see the little AP in the corner?) and not the Onion, I doubt that’s the case.
@pmon
i agree, with what you’re saying, my only problem is that it would be easy much easier to rewrite it completely and fit Mississippi…
@midijunky
you talk as though associated press is one group…
why is that?
M, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, crooked-letter, crooked-letter, I, hump-back, hump-back, I.
Duh…
It’s spelled the way they say it in Mississippi. I Was stationed there for a while,while in the service.Their accent takes a while to get used to.
At school in Canada, we used to sit and chant the spelling to get it into our heads, it’s a tough one to spell. EM-AYE-ESS-ESS-I-ESS-ESS-I-PI-PI-AYE! Yes, i still remember that…
I fart whenever I see a stupid idiotic misspelling like that one. What a maroon!
Have i mentioned that Christ is a myth? No such thing as Jesus. Have a lovely Dec 25th
@ ignatz
Thank you, seriously, about time somone said it… lets get together to celebrate the birth of a man who may or may not have existed, and if he did, may or may not have said things to promote peace on earth and good will towards man. oh and lets celebrate it by decorating a tree with lights and little ornaments, and gifts wrapped in brightly colored paper… stupid christians
Actually being from “Mis’sippi”, I feel I can justifiably say that what we actually say is Mississippi, with very little emphasis on the second syllable, so that it comes out fast and soft. Ergo, the author of this article is just a common idiot. Which, it may surprise you, is common amongst reporters.
M – I – SQUIGGLE LETTER – SQUIGGLE LETTER – I – SQUIGGLE LETTER – SQUIGGLE LETTER – I – HUMPBACK – HUMPBACK – I
my elementary trick
Even we in the Netherlands know how it is spelled by singing the word
too many comments to read them all, but it’s quite possible that for space sake, since the column width would limit long words in a headline, that the state name was contracted. That apostrophe serves double duty, as indicator of a possessive pronoun AND that the pronoun was a contraction.
The fact is, no one DIDN’T understand what was being communicated. (Sorry for the double negative.)
oh, and as if it weren’t already obvious; everyone is a fucking critic these days, and too often for no justifiable reason.