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Google Trends reveal Americans need help with 'spelling' these words

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CIOL Google Trends reveals shocking America's most misspelled words

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.

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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.

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Apparently, residents in North Carolina had the most difficulty spelling "angel," while Wisconsinites had a tough time spelling their own state's name.

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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.”

We are just unable to imagine the situation if Google would ever do this with Indians?

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