If there ’s something we can all hold on , it ’s that spelling is oftennot intuitive — and it ’s unmanageable to spell Word or phrases that you ’ve only ever heard aloud . sure enough , this can be frustrating , but seeing someone writebone apple tea(orbone app the teeth ) instead ofbon appétitwill give you a better belly jest than some lineament - duration drollery .
AsUSA TODAYreports , we now have a new phrase to add to the list of most iconicmisspellingsof all clock time : corn adolescent , a valiant attempt to produce the wordquarantine . It was n’t exactly an apart incident , either . AT&T ExpertsanalyzedGoogle Trends data from March 2020 to March 2021 and found that in 12 commonwealth , more mass looked up how to spell quarantine than any other news . Corn teenwas the most common misspelling . The wordcoronaviruswas anotherpandemic - themed puzzler , though the great unwashed ’s approximations were n’t quite so wide of the fool . The most common one was just one letter off : caronavirus .
Other top entries includedwhich(people often triedwichandwitch ) , andfavorite — occupier of seven state struggled to remember whether the U.S. uses the British spelling , favourite . ( We do , but only when referencing 2018 ’s Olivia Colman - starring filmThe Favourite . ) “ Ibeforee , except afterc ” on the face of it did n’t help many people : believe , receive , andpieceall appear on the map , too .
Corn teenaside , states in general made classicspelling errors . California and Rhode Island had trouble with the vowel inseparate ; the consonant inexerciseconfused North Carolina ; and Delaware habitually forgot theningovernment . In one DoS , however , resident physician were mostly busy Googling how to spellpharaoh . And that province is Florida .
[ h / tUSA TODAY ]
