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Listen Up New Yorkers! It's Spelled B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L

2016-12-05T13:20:42-05:00

The team at Google Trends recently analyzed the data for the misspelled word each U.S. State searched for the most using the entry "how to spell _____".

Apparently, we New Yorkers have a hard time with beautiful, so take the time to learn the proper spelling of this word right now. Let's do it together: B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L

At least we aren't as bad as Californians, who can't remember the difference between a desert and some dessert.

It's the #spellingbee finals! These are the top "how to spell" searches for words by state, mapped #dataviz pic.twitter.com/rjXllJfOoE
— GoogleTrends (@GoogleTrends) May 26, 2016

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How New York City Became the Big Apple

2015-09-07T13:53:59-04:00

Lexicon Valley is an interesting Slate podcast all about language, lexicology and etymology. In this recent episode, the podcast covers the origins of the popular tourist label for our City: The Big Apple. Listen to 3 plausible stories in this 20 minute episode, and try to figure out which one is correct before they reveal the answer.

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New York City is Full of Assholes, Fucks and Shits

2015-07-17T10:06:13-04:00

We are feeling just a little bit TGIF and IDGAF here today so please excuse our potty-mouth throughout this article.

Asshole, bitch, cunt, damn, darn, faggot, fuck, gosh, shit and motherfucker.

These are the 10 words recently researched by Jack Grieve, a professor of Forensic Linguistics at Aston University. Collecting and analyzing almost a billion geotagged tweets from across the United States from October 2013 to November 2014, the professor created heat maps of the usage of the words, showing which regions preferred the usage of each of them.

Click on any of the profanities above to see the map of where it is said the most and least across the country.

Here in the City, we prefer asshole, fuck and shit, arguably the best of the bunch. We avoid the homophobic slur faggot and the sexist words bitch and cunt, and don't waste our time with weak expletives like gosh, darn and damn. We should be proud of ourselves.

There is just one phrase in the classics column which New Yorkers perform relatively weak on, so please, step up your usage of the classic: motherfucker.

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