Eastchester, Westchester, Worchester?

[brooklynite]

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[RhodeIslandOne]

1. Ooof

I thought the one thing Joe had going for him was he knew how to run a polished campaign.

I was wrong.

[marybourg]

3. Could you explain to us outlanders?

[RhodeIslandOne]

4. The city is spelled Worcester

Pronounced WOOOSTER or WISSSTAAA around here. Part of Worcester County is in Joe's 4th district.

[marybourg]

7. Ahaa. Thanx

[demmiblue]

5. It's a typo... it should be Worcester. n/t

[marybourg]

8. Thanx

[Mariana]

15. I don't think it's a typo. It's a spelling error. There is a difference.

It's a very common spelling error by people who have never lived in Massachusetts.

[karynnj]

6. Wow someone in his campaigned goofed ... It is only the second largest city!

Though in this case the name is not pronounced as spelled - correctly or incorrectly. One of my daughters got her undergrad degree there and always corrects my pronunciation of the name.

[berni_mccoy]

9. That could be the newspaper's fault...

[brooklynite]

10. A print ad (with photo) is not generally composed by the newspaper...

...and even if it was, it would (or should) be reviewed by the advertiser.

[MineralMan]

11. Speling dosen't mattre innie moar.

The growing illiteracy of America is a plague.

Probably the creator of that print ad isn't even being paid by the campaign. The problem exists everywhere. I've seen company websites with horrible misspellings on their home pages. When pointed out, the errors don't even get corrected. Nobody cares any longer.

[Act_of_Reparation]

14. Oh come on.

"The growing illiteracy of America"?

You know that's not true.

Reading and writing are two separate skills. Take it from someone who has proofread more than their fair share of academic publications: plenty of old, highly educated people struggle with the latter.

[demigoddess]

18. yes, probably but the 's to make something plural drives ME NUTS!

AND I WISH PEOPLE WOULD LEARN IT IS S NOT 'S!!

[hlthe2b]

12. This westerner is as far from a MA native as they come, but even I caught that.

Oopsie!

[Act_of_Reparation]

13. How to lose your New England cred it one easy step.

[Mariana]

16. No one who's lived in New England would make that stupid error.

How much you wanna bet whoever wrote that also pronounces it that way? Wor chest er.

[Act_of_Reparation]

17. The rookiest of rookie mistakes.

Good thing they didn't ask them to spell "Schaghticoke".