Other common misspellings include:

Joni Mitchell [not "Joanie"]
Jimmie Rodgers, the Singing Brakeman [not "Breakman"]
Bill Staines [not "Stains"]
 

Bill D., I'm witchyew!  I think misspelling has become epidemic in the US largely because people--including those who write copy for the mass media [and those who supervise them]--don't give a fig if they use a word incorrectly or spell it incorrectly, or pronounce it incorrectly, or all of the above.

If we're allowing wishful thinking, here's what I'd like:  Mudcat search engine would allow fuzzy searches; then it would correct the misspelled words in thread titles, so as not to perpetuate the errors.

SharonA, Maine has been "Me.," at least since the 1950s--back when California was "Cal." and Oregon was "Ore. --before our current postal abbreviations were instituted.  Interesting bit of trivia there--that no state besides Mississippi has a "p" in it.  As Johnny Carson would have said, "I did not know that."

Dicho, I think Quebec is QB.

Genie