Over 100 years ago, Fitchburg did their best French impersonation and gave into the (spelling) Nazis.

Have you always wanted to diss smaller American cities without the hassle of actually visiting them? Well, there's no better passive-aggressive act than misspelling their name. Now, American cities can be routinely offended by your lackadaisical spelling habits and vitriol from afar.

ePodunk.com has a list of the 15 most misspelled American city names, and Pittsburgh (left) tops the list. Apparently heart disease isn't the only silent killer. Silent letter "h"s can also kill how to spell a city's name.

According to ePodunk, the US Board on Geographic Names once tried to forcibly change Pittsburgh's name. In 1890, they demanded Pittsburgh trim a little weight and lose the "h." Pittsburgh fought back with a 20 year reign of terror (through polite disagreement and letter writing campaigns saying, "Please?"), and the Board of Geographic Names relented to the spelling. This isn't the first time Board of Geographic Names has wielded an iron fist and brutalized language. These are the same grammar and spelling Fascists who wiped the apostrophe clean from American location names over 100 years ago.

The top-15 most misspelled American city names are:

1. Pittsburgh, PA
2. Tuscon, AZ
3. Cincinnati, OH
4. Albuquerque, NM
5. Culpeper, VA
6. Asheville, NC
7. Worcester, MA
8. Manhattan, NYC, NY
9. Phoenix, AZ
10. Niagara Falls, NY
11. Fredericksburg, VA
12. Philadelphia, PA
13. Detroit, MI
14. Chattanooga, TN
15. Gloucester, MA

Calling Culpeper, VA, a "city" is like calling Lindsay Lohan "dignified." It only has 9,700 people living in it, of which 1/2 are shopping at Wal-Mart at any given moment. More people misspell the city than actual live in it. But I don't make these polls. I just mock them.

The real shocker here is how Albuquerque is somehow less misspelled than Pittsburgh.  A little H throws more people off than the jumble of Q's and U's going on inside Albuquerque? How is this possible? The city rhymes with "turkey" yet isn't even remotely spelled like it. If there's anything Hooked on Phonics taught small children it was to sound it out. Sadly, Albuquerque is proof that Hooked on Phonics was built on a web of lies and deceit.

And, yes, Massachusetts can take pride in having two cities appear on the list. This is understandable, since no one outside Massachusetts has spelled the state correctly since the advent of the internet. It's only logical we'd have city names that confuse people as well. Like all unruly children, we get to blame out non-phonetic spelling chaos on our British parents, as nearly every city and town is named after some British locale. Instead of being pronounced "War-chest-errr" we get "Woostah."

But, like all things of British origin--warm beverages, monarchies, and delightful accents that ignore the existence of the letter R--I think that just makes it all the better.