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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

tl;dr bot out here taking jobs from journalists

[–] danc4498 13 points 4 months ago

Also, it’s great for grabbing people’s attention. Exactly the purpose of a headline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Think of all the ink they're saving! The ink is how they usually get you.

[–] jaybone 2 points 4 months ago

HP has been running this scam since Gutenberg.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mississississippi

Did it get it right?

[–] over_clox 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Shhh... You're going to summon all the stray cats.

[–] CptEnder 4 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, that's kinda how they say it down in Missippi

[–] HootinNHollerin 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] jaybone 5 points 4 months ago

Education is also optional there.

[–] superfes 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

*hurted.

get it right

[–] Thcdenton 11 points 4 months ago

My mom taught me how to spell that before I could read. It was fun because I said pp. Core memory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Misipi's" -- deduplicate the right way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Mi(S2i)2P2i

[–] starchylemming 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Who is this Miss Ippi and why do we care?

[–] over_clox 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Is it where they make Schweppes?

[–] DirkMcCallahan 4 points 4 months ago

Sounds about right, actually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If that’s improvement, I’d hate to think what it was before.