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.
Think of all the ink they’re saving! The ink is how they usually get you.
HP has been running this scam since Gutenberg.
Mississississippi
Did it get it right?
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.
Much more likely it’s a doctored photo just to make the joke. Either way, it’s sad.
FWIW, Snopes agrees with you.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/missippi-literacy-program/
This hurt me =(
*hurted.
get it right
Who is this Miss Ippi and why do we care?
“Misipi’s” – deduplicate the right way
Mi(S2i)2P2i
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.
If that’s improvement, I’d hate to think what it was before.
