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What Unitedstatesians don't know how to spell, state by state

A Washington Post article from last week on some Google shenanigans:

Quote:

[...] Google decided to see what words people in each of the 50 states struggle to spell.

To do this, employees looked at Google searches of "how to spell ______" in each of the states from Jan. 1 to April 30 this year. Whatever word filled that blank most often in each state became denoted as that state's "most misspelled word."

The results may not be scientific, but they sure were amusing.

The list:

Alabama: pneumonia
Alaska: schedule
Arizona: tomorrow
Arkansas: chihuahua
California: beautiful
Colorado: tomorrow
Connecticut: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Delaware: hallelujah
Washington, D.C.: ninety
Florida: receipt
Georgia: gray
Hawaii: people
Idaho: quote
Illinois: appreciate
Indiana: hallelujah
Iowa: vacuum
Kansas: diamond
Kentucky: beautiful
Louisiana: giraffe
Maine: pneumonia
Maryland: special
Massachusetts: license
Michigan: pneumonia
Minnesota: beautiful
Mississippi: nanny
Missouri: maintenance
Montana: surprise
Nebraska: suspicious
Nevada: available
New Hampshire: diarrhea
New Jersey: twelve
New Mexico: bananas
New York: beautiful
North Carolina: angel
North Dakota: dilemma
Ohio: beautiful
Oklahoma: patient
Oregon: sense
Pennsylvania: sauerkraut
Rhode Island: liar
South Carolina: chihuahua
South Dakota: college
Tennessee: chaos
Texas: maintenance
Utah: disease
Vermont: Europe
Virginia: delicious
Washington: pneumonia
West Virginia: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Wisconsin: Wisconsin
Wyoming: priority

nu-messico can't spell banana? do they put a double "n" like bannana? or bananna? cuz with one "n" it could conceivably be pronounced "banaina".

dc misspells ninety? i would have bet my shirt that it was fifty (spelled "fitty," as we say). wonder about it now. "nighty" (like eighty)?

Why the fuck is "pneumonia" such an issue? From coast the coast (and Midwest), north to south. What the what?

Also, Wisconsin can't spell Wisconsin?

Not sure I fully trust the methodology here. Using Google as a predictor is problematic. I don't think many people learn how to spell something by searching "How to spell..." and then attempting to spell that word. What a backasswards way of doing things.

Anyway, when I do look up spellings, I usually do so to satisfy someone whose writing I'm proofing — basically to settle an argument. In those cases the person who doesn't know how to spell doesn't do the searching. Of course, that's totally anecdotal and non-generalizable, but still.

Still what?
Still crazy after all these years.