Obviously needed

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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 60 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 2y

tl;dr bot out here taking jobs from journalists

danc4498@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

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

veroxii@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

jaybone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

HP has been running this scam since Gutenberg.

xlash123@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Mississississippi

Did it get it right?

over_clox@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Cat distribution

Edit: I just summoned pipedbot

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CptEnder@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Promise?

thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org · 18 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Education is also optional there.

superfes@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This hurt me =(

biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y

*hurted.

get it right

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

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

fl42v@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"Misipi's" -- deduplicate the right way

AlolanYoda@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 2y

Mi(S2i)2P2i

starchylemming@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

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

Zier@fedia.io · 8 pts · 2y

Who is this Miss Ippi and why do we care?

Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y

Is it where they make Schweppes?

over_clox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

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.

DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Sounds about right, actually.

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y

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