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.
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.
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 =(
My mom taught me how to spell that before I could read. It was fun because I said pp. Core memory.
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
Who is this Miss Ippi and why do we care?
“Misipi’s” – deduplicate the right way
Mi(S2i)2P2i
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.
Sounds about right, actually.
If that’s improvement, I’d hate to think what it was before.
