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.
63 3 Replytl;dr bot out here taking jobs from journalists
33 0 ReplyAlso, it’s great for grabbing people’s attention. Exactly the purpose of a headline.
13 0 ReplyThink of all the ink they're saving! The ink is how they usually get you.
5 0 ReplyHP has been running this scam since Gutenberg.
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Mississississippi
Did it get it right?
31 0 ReplyShhh... You're going to summon all the stray cats.
25 0 ReplyPromise?
4 0 ReplyEdit: I just summoned pipedbot
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To be fair, that's kinda how they say it down in Missippi
18 0 ReplyYep that’s definitely how it’s pronounced there. The second I is basically silent so it could be just 4 s’ in a row
7 0 ReplyEducation is also optional there.
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This hurt me =(
14 0 Reply*hurted.
get it right
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My mom taught me how to spell that before I could read. It was fun because I said pp. Core memory.
11 0 Reply"Misipi's" -- deduplicate the right way
9 0 ReplyMi(S2i)2P2i
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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
8 0 ReplyWho is this Miss Ippi and why do we care?
8 0 ReplyPlot 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.
5 0 ReplyIs it where they make Schweppes?
5 0 ReplySounds about right, actually.
4 0 ReplyIf that’s improvement, I’d hate to think what it was before.
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