Quite a few Reddit users assumed the apparent error came from the AP, commenting: “Why would Mississippi be responsible for the AP’s inability to spell Mississippi?” We found many more instances where the AP was blamed for spelling it as “Missippi.” A search for “Missippi” on Reddit showed lots of reposts with comments that placed blame on the AP. For readers unfamiliar with how significant this is, it meant that the photograph was one of the top submissions on the day that it was posted. One of the posts from June 2019 received more than 34,500 points and hundreds of comments. The “Missippi’s literacy program” headline picture has been reposted a seemingly endless number of times on Reddit over the years, perhaps as a way to make light of the state’s national education ranking. “Missippi” is just the phonetic spelling for how they pronounce it down there.” One Reddit user provided an interesting possible explanation of why the headline was spelled the way it was, although it could be considered to be a stretch: “They just shortened Mississippi because there are only two columns. The picture could also have been doctored by someone looking to make a joke. It’s also possible that the headline was printed as slang, something that has been written about the word “Missippi” before, since some residents in the state pronounce it that way. It’s possible that a small newspaper that has not yet made available its archives to accidentally printed the misspelled headline. We found no newspaper that misspelled the word Mississippi as “Missippi.” Further, we found it slightly odd that, according to Google’s search results, the headline picture didn’t find its way on the internet until five years later in 2010. The most common headline we saw was: “Mogul’s literacy investment paying off in poverty-stricken Mississippi schools.” However, it had a different headline: “Barksdale Reading Institute getting results in schools.”įollowing June 12, we found that the same story was printed with different headlines in quite a few newspapers. It was credited to Associated Press journalist Emily Wagster Pettus and printed in The Greenwood Commonwealth, a newspaper in the state of Mississippi. The earliest date we landed on was June 12, 2005. We searched newspaper archives on the handy website for the words from the body of the story. The following words were also visible in the body of the story: “… and his late wife, Sally, put up $100 million of their own money to improve …” This bit of text helped in the effort to track down when the body of the article was first published.
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