As Americans struggled with job losses and an economic downturn during the global pandemic, many others faced another, lesser-known struggle: trying to figure out how to spell the word ‘quarantine.’
According to telecommunications giant AT&T, which used Google Trends data to determine the most misspelled words in each state, people in 12 states searched ‘How to spell quarantine’ more often than they searched for the spelling of other words from March 24, 2020 to March 24, 2021.
The most common misspelling of the word, AT&T reports, was ‘corn teen.’
