Of note are mirror ambigrams. Particularly vertical axis mirror ambigrams, in this instance. That is, words that could be read by reflecting the design. Basile Morin has a list of ambigrams – mirror and otherwise – that they’ve designed on their website here.

I can only see one without opening the meta link, myself. Woman’s got her tongue caught in a vice.

Might be the app I’m using?

It could be worse, but I’ve never been west of the Mississippi (within the US; I’ve been to BC). I’ve adopted or switched words over the years, so it’s not too surprising that it got it wrong. That old dialect quiz from the NYT or whatever years ago was worse at getting my location.

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For me personally, not including the travel to Chicago, it would be 225USD for a less than 5 hour flight from Chicago to Seattle, while the smallest cabin (“roomette”) on an Amtrak would cost 1400USD and take over 46 hours. Even the coach is 280USD.

Edit: I’m seeing the bit about short trips now; I thought that the comment I was replying to was about travel in general. Chicago to Detroit would only be 35USD for ~6h on Amtrak coach (no cabin offered), flight price would be the same as Chicago-Seattle. Train would be cheaper in this case, though without a cabin.