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'To E Or Not To E': USC And UCLA Quibble Over How To Spell Shakespear(e)

5:18pm August 24, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

At the base of a new, towering statue of a Trojan queen, Southern Cal quoted a few choice verses from the Bard. But, UCLA students pointed out, the school misspelled his name ... or did it?

Google published a map of most-searched-for spellings, by state.

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Misspellings, Mapped: America The How-Do-You-Spell-Beautiful?

1:12pm May 31, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Just in time for the National Spelling Bee, Google published a map of the words people in each state have a hard time spelling. The results are not pretty. (And what's up with New Jersey?)

One of the pigeons in a study that found the birds could distinguish dozens of words.

Can Pigeons Spell? New Study Suggests They Can Recognize Words

7:56pm September 22, 2016

by Eyder Peralta

The smartest pigeon learned to recognize about 60 four-letter words. It's the first time an orthographic brain has been recorded in a nonprimate.