Wow, PA is misspelled on the Liberty Bell. I’ve been to see it and I don’t think there’s ever any mention of that when you go. I wonder if it shows on my small-scale Liberty Bell? I’ll have to look.
Actually it isn’t that it is “misspelled”, but just that there was no accepted spelling of the name at the time that it was cast. The double “n” spelling was not standardized until many years later. So it isn’t “wrong,” just archaic.
pearlsbs about 4 years ago
On the Liberty Bell, Pennsylvania is misspelled “Pensylvania.” This spelling was one of several acceptable spellings of the name at that time.
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/liberty/01_history_04.jsp
Templo S.U.D. about 4 years ago
I first saw the Liberty Bell in 1998 and I don’t even recall “Pennsylvania” being misspelt thereon.
Otto Knowbetter about 4 years ago
And the first iPad was a feminine hygiene product in a MadTV skit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs
Tog about 4 years ago
Jason comes across as a very pleasant fella.
Caldonia about 4 years ago
Is it just me, or is Ripley frickin’ morbid? What other macabre things have they blown their money on?
jpayne4040 about 4 years ago
When I was a kid I thought you had to live in Pennsylvania to be able to spell it correctly!
UmmeMoosa about 4 years ago
jasonsnakelover commented on every Single story of Ripley’s Believe it or not and every time signed it off the same way.
Believe it,or Notttttttt!
Space_cat about 4 years ago
So when do we get our army of cloned “Emancipators”?
zerotvus about 4 years ago
What will you give for some of my hair(rare and getting rarer everyday) and some snot?
FassEddie about 4 years ago
Nobody remembers that iPhone. The naming rights cost Apple a pittance. The irony is that phone calls are its least used feature. Believe it or Nuts!
MoeJoe about 4 years ago
On the Liberty Bell, Pennsylvania was spelled Pensylvania. This spelling was an acceptable spelling of the name at that time.
bookworm0812 about 4 years ago
Wow, PA is misspelled on the Liberty Bell. I’ve been to see it and I don’t think there’s ever any mention of that when you go. I wonder if it shows on my small-scale Liberty Bell? I’ll have to look.
dv1093 about 4 years ago
So, who MADE it?
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 4 years ago
I’ve lost all respect for you, Ripley’s. Oh, not really.
Take care, may the sword be with you, and gesundheit.
HunterIsACriminal about 4 years ago
I misspelled my snake’s name when some of his hair got stuck to the blood on my iscreen.
ncorgbl about 4 years ago
My hair has already grown back, but finding a telegram office was not easy.
Pensylvania on the Liberty Bell and in our Constitution is misspelled everywhere else.
The first I Phone was two emptied Indian Corn tin cans and a string.
WCraft Premium Member about 4 years ago
You know what is hard for me to believe? The cryptic comments today!
cupertino jay about 4 years ago
LibertyBelle was a lead chararcter in a (not half bad) recently concluded ensemble Netflix series: Glorious Ladies Of Wrestling / GLOW.
likedstamps about 4 years ago
Sauron had an eyephone.
ChessPirate about 4 years ago
Well, that’s what they get for buying their bells from Acme… ☺
paranormal about 4 years ago
Abraham Lincoln was known as ‘Honest Abe’. Donald Trump will go down in history as ‘Lying Donnie’!
Stephen Gilberg about 4 years ago
“I’ve always wanted to learn how to spell ‘Connecticut.’” —Woody Allen
pearlsbs about 4 years ago
I know that is a “P” in the comic but it looks more like a “D”. Who ever heard of Dennsylvania?
dawnsterner59 about 4 years ago
Ick. Ripley’s…that’s just …ick… How do you know that you weren’t bamboozled?
Craig Westlake about 4 years ago
Before I paid out $81,000 I’d want a DNA test…
sbwertz about 4 years ago
Actually it isn’t that it is “misspelled”, but just that there was no accepted spelling of the name at the time that it was cast. The double “n” spelling was not standardized until many years later. So it isn’t “wrong,” just archaic.
Ripplin about 4 years ago
Apple seems to have a history of stealing other people’s ideas, so that’s not surprising at all.