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Gallardo994 ,

Is it where they make Schweppes?

Thcdenton ,

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

starchylemming ,

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

fl42v ,

“Misipi’s” – deduplicate the right way

AlolanYoda ,

Mi(S2i)2P2i

Zier ,
@Zier@fedia.io avatar

Who is this Miss Ippi and why do we care?

thagoat ,

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

HootinNHollerin , (edited )

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 ,

Education is also optional there.

over_clox ,

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.

xlash123 ,
@xlash123@sh.itjust.works avatar

Mississississippi

Did it get it right?

over_clox ,

Shhh… You’re going to summon all the stray cats.

mexicancartel ,

Cat distribution

Edit: I just summoned pipedbot

CptEnder ,

Promise?

DirkMcCallahan ,

Sounds about right, actually.

some_guy ,

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

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

Much more likely it’s a doctored photo just to make the joke. Either way, it’s sad.

sgibson5150 ,

FWIW, Snopes agrees with you.

www.snopes.com/…/missippi-literacy-program/

Fubarberry ,
@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz avatar

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.

prettybunnys ,

tl;dr bot out here taking jobs from journalists

danc4498 ,

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

veroxii ,

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

jaybone ,

HP has been running this scam since Gutenberg.

superfes ,

This hurt me =(

biggerbogboy ,

*hurted.

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