The correct spelling of the American state traditionally known as "Virginia" is sometimes mistakenly written as "Verginia". This spelling error likely stems from a common mispronunciation of the word, in which the second syllable is pronounced with a soft "g" sound. In phonetic transcription, this would be represented as /vər-JIN-yə/. However, the correct spelling and pronunciation of the state name is with a hard "g" sound in the second syllable, as in /vər-JIN-ee-ə/.