Popular misspellings of "ouija" in discussions of ouija boards on Yahoo! Answers

They repeated “board” so much, now that looks weird. Board. Board.
That there’s widespread misspelling of “Ouija” makes sense, since it’s a made-up word with no connection to anything. It doesn’t even have a consistent linguistic root since it seems to be the words “yes” in French and German, but mispronounced, which doesn’t help one remember how to spell it. It’s almost as bad as trying to figure out how to spell the name of an internet company you’ve only heard spoken. “So what letters get arbitrarily left out?”

I’ve always wondered if that was misspelled or just using the English regional variant (also: babbie).

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