Unpopular opinion, but the extra “iss” is unnecessary for reading the word, and with this being a newspaper article they have limited headline space.
Clearly this is just efficient debloating of the article title.
tl;dr bot out here taking jobs from journalists
Also, it’s great for grabbing people’s attention. Exactly the purpose of a headline.
Mississississippi
Did it get it right?
Shhh… You’re going to summon all the stray cats.
Edit: I just summoned pipedbot
Promise?
To be fair, that’s kinda how they say it down in Missippi
Yep that’s definitely how it’s pronounced there. The second I is basically silent so it could be just 4 s’ in a row
Education is also optional there.
This hurt me =(
*hurted.
get it right
Much more likely it’s a doctored photo just to make the joke. Either way, it’s sad.
My mom taught me how to spell that before I could read. It was fun because I said pp. Core memory.
“Misipi’s” – deduplicate the right way
Mi(S2i)2P2i
Who is this Miss Ippi and why do we care?
that name needs work anyway a reform is in order: i miss my pee pee?
m ee pee pee ?
or just call it the piss state and be done with it
Is it where they make Schweppes?
Sounds about right, actually.
Plot twist: Alabama used to write Southern Mississippi’s news papers. Not all of them obviously, but the Mississippi Press was written by the Mobile Press Register. No joke.
If that’s improvement, I’d hate to think what it was before.
