The Josh Innes Show - Difficult Words To Spell

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

There is a list of words that each state struggles to spell. Our schools seem to be pretty useless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The list definitely will tell you. So let's take a look at this list. Oddly, misspell, a not particularly easy word to spell, is not on a recently released list of words Americans often misspell. But as the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets underway, a study by WordUnscrambler.Pro, an online tool for Scrabble players and others who play word games, finds that Americans have a hard time spelling a host of other words. No shit! We're a bunch of uneducated dipshits. So much so, in fact, that I couldn't even say uneducated

without stumbling. That's how uneducated we are as an uneducated group of dipshits. Also, it is fascinating that there is a website dedicated to helping Scrabble players. How fucking serious is your Scrabble if you're like, oh watch this shit. I'm studying up like this weekend We're gonna drink beers and play Scrabble outside Well, I'm gonna hit my wife with a bomb because I'm going to a word Unscrambler dot Pro and I'm gonna learn new words baby. I'm learning new words. I got a whole bunch of new words in my arsenal for Scrabble. Holy shit, does Scrabble sound like a terrible time. I'm getting pissed playing Yahtzee because Jilly keeps kicking my ass at Yahtzee. Like I'm getting my ass kicked like on a consistent basis just

like losing non-stop and I have certain like rules like obvious rules that I stick with when I play Yahtzee most notably no matter how like if I whenever I get a full house, I always take a full house even if it's the first role of the game and it's two sixes and two fives. I'm like you know what full house right from the jump. I'm taking a full house other things. I always like also always take if I get a four of a kind early in a game and it's at least four fours or more, I'm going to take it because a four of a kind's

hard to get, right? There are certain rules that I abide by, right? And I think that I'm pretty smart at Yahtzee, yet my wife continues to kick my fucking ass at Yahtzee and it bothers me. And I understand that it's just a game of chance, but I don't like getting my ass kicked playing Yahtzee. And I certainly wouldn't want to get my ass kicked playing Scrabble. Hold on, let me play a couple commercials and let's see what kind of words people struggle to spell. It won't take long to tell you Neutral's ingredients. Vodka. S soda, natural flavors. So what should we talk about? No sugar added? Neutral. Refreshingly simple. Wordunscrambler.pro. Again, it's an online tool for Scrabble players and others who play

word games. What are other word games? God, word games are terrible. You know what I used to like? I used to like doing the crossword puzzle, but only the crossword puzzle in People magazine. The People magazine crossword puzzle was great because it was like, if other people were doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, you're like, nobody knows that shit. But then you felt like a real G when you'd get like, you know, three letters down, blank and the hat starring Mike Myers and you're like, well, I'll be taking this now, please. Like the People magazine crossword was the shit. Let's see here using Google Trends search data from the start of the year through May 19th for how do you spell and how to spell analysts found that we definitely can't spell definitely. Well that's true, that's a tough word to spell. We can't separate our impulse to misspell separate from search engine inquiries and we somehow

find it necessary to Google the spelling of necessary. Well I know how to spell necessary, that's an easy one right? Those are the top three hard words to spell, respectively, according to word unscramblers analysis. You won't believe what else is on the list, or maybe you will. Like, of course I would believe this because we are a country full of dipshits. We don't know how to spell. We're uneducated hillbillies. Of course we don't know. Education doesn't matter to anybody anymore. Plus, you go to school all you're learning about is that boys can be girls and girls can be boys and rainbow flags and other shit. And also you're learning that if you're a white kid

you're really just a dope. So like, what are they teaching these children in the schools? What does a Google analysis reveal about spelling miscues. At least two words with the challenging IE combination made the list. Most misspelled words believe which came in at number four and neighbor at number seven. How do you not know that it's I before E except after C? Isn't that what it is? I before E except after C. So like the Kansas City Chiefs, it's C-H-I-E-F-S. It's like, again, unless it comes after, like this isn't hard. Like do they, like I honest to God want to know if they teach

this shit in school anymore. Like do they sit down and just tell you obvious things that when you remember them, you're like, oh no shit. Like please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Like I don't even know that I know what that means, but I remember please excuse my dear Aunt Sally. Like I don't even know that I know what that means but I remember please excuse my dear Aunt Sally because it's a what parentheses, equations, math, multiply, divide, add, subtract, right? But like at least I remember that. Like I wonder if kids go to school now and they do this and they remember this shit. Like I wonder if kids go to school now and they do this and they remember this shit. Like I wonder if kids go to school now and they get Roy G Biv, right? Which is the, is that the colors of the spectrum

or whatever? The red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Like do you guys know this shit? Do kids when they come home and they're like, hey, Dad, I just learned about Roy G. Biv. Does anybody remember that? Or do they come home and they're like, Hey, Dad, do you know that if I cut my penis off, I can be a girl? Like, is that what they learn at school? Like, I, honest to God, don't know what they teach people. Like, do they go to school and they're like, You know what, Dad, I didn't really learn about the periodic table of elements, but Colton peed in the litter box today because he thinks he's a cat. Like I honestly don't know what happens at school for these young kids. They are gonna come out of this world being just wrecked. We're all

we're wrecked and we went to semi-normal school. These poor kids are going to fucked up school and they're gonna get super fucked up. But to not know how to spell believe is just stupid. It's I before E. It's usually like 99 times out of 100. It's I before E. There were 33,500 searches for definitely 30,000 for separate. Separate is a tough one sometimes but then you just got to think about journey in like separate ways. How is that spelled? And 29,000 for necessary. Through seems to be a troublesome word with 28,000 searches. Let's see. Google took root with a misspelling. Let's see. Google's own origin story

includes a misspelling. Creators Sergey Brin and Larry Page originally called their search engine back rub, but Page had a better idea. It might have been hard to think of a worse one. Google or a one followed by 100 zeros or if you're into exponents, 10 to the 100th power. Page mitspelled it and Google, the search engine, was born. Well, how about 100 zeros or if you're into exponents 10 to the 100th power page Mitch spelled it and Google the search engine was born. Well how about that? What other words? Like tell me what you promised me some states. Ah here we go. Alabama, Kansas, New York, and Wisconsin all want to be different. So they don't

know how to spell different apparently. Well Arkansans just want a good Cresadilla Okay, Colorado Home to well that makes it You know why it's interesting to me that Arkansas would be a state where people would like Google how to spell quesadilla It's because if you think about the people who love to go to just like generic Mexican restaurants It's like middle-class white people. Middle-class white people love Mexican restaurants and they love to like say like the couple of words

they know in Spanish to the waiter, like, you know, like sea or whatever, you know, like shit like that. And I'll have some queso, that type of shit. Like middle American white people love Mexican restaurants and the chips and the salsas. So it doesn't shock me that a super kind of you know white middle American state like Arkansas would be Googling how to spell quesadilla. Colorado, home to six U.S. military bases, seems to search Sergeant a lot. and Delaware, Massachusetts, Mississippi,

Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming are all looking for someone or something that's B-E-A-utiful. So beautiful is a word. Like when you think about this, I can understand Mississippi people not knowing how to spell beautiful or any word for that matter. But like Delaware and Massachusetts, those are just like, especially Massachusetts, that's like the most elitist snobby fucking place on the planet. How the fuck do they not know how to spell beautiful? West Virginia I get. Californians in Washington, Washingtonians of the state variety are looking for appreciation and people in Montana and New Mexico want to appreciate whatever that is they

appreciate. Contrary to their prickly reputations, New Jerseyans like to say congratulations as do the folks in Illinois, so they Google how to spell congratulations. Floridians like to come. The fact that you like this is wild to me that these these seem like common fucking words. Arkansas, Kentucky, South Carolina and Virginia are just looking for well people, so those states don't know how to spell people. Schools are worthless. Go learn a trade.

Maine is concerned with pneumonia. Now that's a fair thing. Like I would think like, dude, who knows that there's a P on pneumonia? Like I knew that, but like not everybody's going to know that. At least that's a trick. The people in Alaska can't spell tomorrow. In Connecticut, they can't spell schedule. Again, super smart state like Connecticut up in the Northeast and they can't spell schedule. The folks in Pennsylvania can't spell scissors. The folks in Tennessee

can't spell broccoli, but at least those are ones that you could go, okay, like I kind of get it. Let's see Idaho and Utah can't spell definitely. They can't spell necessary in Georgia. Louisiana struggles with through business in Oregon and Indiana. It's taught t a u g h. Like this is fascinating to me. In Michigan, they're starting from scratch. So they can't spell scratch. They're searching scratch in Michigan. Now Vermont just out here showing off they want to know how to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

So obviously Vermont knows how to spell every fucking word and now they're just bored. Vermont's like fuck this shit. We're gonna sit here bitch about Trump a little bit and we're gonna learn how to spell fake words now. We're on fire. Anyway, more to come.