Google has released its annual list of “America’s most misspelled words.”

According to Google’s data on “how to spell” queries.

According to Google Trend analytics.

It’s time for another chapter in the running annals of public signage gone horribly, terribly wrong.

The jokes write themselves. [Mike DeBonis]

This little man shooting a look at the camera is Donovan Jordan, D.C.’s representative in the National Spelling Bee, which wrapped up last night. Jordan didn’t take home top honors, but he certainly did his city proud.

Based on current tuition rates, completing a four-year undergraduate degree at Georgetown University costs students and their parents slightly more than $160,000. Given such revenue, one would assume that the school might be able to employ someone to make sure “University” is spelled correctly on the cover of its commencement program.

It appears as if the local baseball outfit isn’t the only high-profile Washingtonian entity which has difficulty spelling the word “national” — the letter-sequencing affliction has apparently made its way into the copy editing offices of the Washington Post. Rachel Maddow picked up on the epidemic on last night’s show. Your daily dose of schadenfreude, but moments away: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Far be it from me…

DDOT workers were out putting the finishing touches on the contraflow bike lane on 15th Street NW today, installing the permanent plastic pylons that separate the line of parked cars from the new sidewalk-adjacent bike lane. But it looks like there are still a few wrinkles to get ironed out with the signage. DCist spotted this pretty large “typo” today: After we snapped this photo, we noticed Greater Greater Washington had spotted another spelling mistake…

From today’s corrections section in the Washington Post….