A spelling test

15 thoughts on “A spelling test”

1. Umm, Jonoo…I don’t thimk I ever due that….

2. Pop quiz:

   __ I should of paid more attention in school.
   __ I should have paid more attention in school.

3. Got 23 correct, 85%

4. 17 correct, which surprises me,I thought I was better than that.

   Time to turn on spellcheck.

5. lmao Im not even gonna try it

6. Come on Infidel, Hit It!

7. Actually, I can’t spell worth a damn. If spell check had not been invented I would never be able to write without driving some poor editor insane.

   Thoses are some pretty tough words.

8. Got 21 correct, but I disagree on dependant vs. dependent. American Heritage says both are acceptable without indicating a preference.

9. I mainly missed the ones where alternate spellings are also acceptable…

10. Ouch, I’m quite good with language and still only got 16/27 right… I guess however good you are at spelling, there’s always improvement to be made!

11. Well we already new I couldn’t spell!

12. I scored 19 out of 25. And DJ, it’s ‘should have’. ‘should of’ is terrible English!

13. Got 24 correct (89 %). Not bad for a Frenchman!! ^^ But I guess American people got accustomed (another nice word to spell, btw) to those spellings and must be confused at times…

14. 18/27 with some mistakes in words where several spellings could be considered correct (especially here outside of the N American continent). And I disagreed with e.g. Q21 where I thought _all options_ were incorrect (should have been ‘privile*d*ge’)…

    BTW, folks relying totally on spell checkers: do yourself a favour, turn *off* the checking and learn your language… I challenge you: beat someone with English as his third language… 😉

15. I’m Portuguese, Sebastian is French, shouldn’t you people be a bit embarrassed about having foreigners write better English than you?