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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:10 pm Post subject: Check your spelling (quizzes) |
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Little quizzes. Average --- about 20% wrong.
http://www.badspelling.com/ |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: Re: Check your spelling (quizzes) |
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judgment (you chose: judgement) - 75.96% of users also got this wrong
Suck it, test.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Judgement |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Spelling Quiz #1: You spelled 8 out of 50 words incorrectly.
I missed 'judgment' too even after reading the previous posters reply. D'oh! |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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You spelled 3 out of 50 words incorrectly:
vicious (you chose: viscious) - 38.97% of users also got this wrong
pistachio (you chose: pistacchio) - 42.68% of users also got this wrong
coliseum (you chose: colliseum) - 66.04% of users also got this wrong
Pistachio and coliseum aren't exactly English words. I was trying to get fancy with that extra 'c' in pistachio, I guess.
Vicious has been giving me trouble lately-- maybe I've been spelling it wrong all along.
I do pride myself on my spelling though, so I'll try to slog through some more tests and maybe it will catch some pernicious errors. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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Test 2
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You spelled 2 out of 50 words incorrectly:
dumbbell (you chose: dumbell) - 54.52% of users also got this wrong
flabbergast (you chose: flabberghast) - 43.50% of users also got this wrong |
Test 3
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You spelled 2 out of 50 words incorrectly:
chocolaty (you chose: chocolatey) - 74.73% of users also got this wrong
no one (you chose: noone) - 10.55% of users also got this wrong
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Test 4
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You spelled 2 out of 50 words incorrectly:
aficionado (you chose: afficionado) - 74.14% of users also got this wrong
cemetery (you chose: cemetary) - 36.11% of users also got this wrong |
Test 5
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You spelled 4 out of 50 words incorrectly:
supersede (you chose: supercede) - 79.93% of users also got this wrong
accommodate (you chose: accomodate) - 39.71% of users also got this wrong
bellwether (you chose: bellweather) - 66.48% of users also got this wrong
inadvertent (you chose: inadvertant) - 52.92% of users also got this wrong
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What's a bellwether?
Anyway, I feel naked and ashamed. I was really hoping for at least one 100% |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
Spelling Quiz #1: You spelled 8 out of 50 words incorrectly.
I missed 'judgment' too even after reading the previous posters reply. D'oh! |
No, they're both right. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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I had my doubts about some of the words. For example "jewelry" was included as a correct answer, but "jewellery" is the British spelling and was not on the list. To some people, both options would be incorrect.
Here's a (not infallible) link to some examples of other discrepancies.
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm
Man, I'm second-guessing all my spelling now. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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You spelled 2 out of 50 words incorrectly:
indispensable (you chose: indispensible) - 54.53% of users also got this wrong
septuagenarian (you chose: septagenarian) - 64.45% of users also got this wrong
Number of people who have taken quiz: 130152
Mispelled words average: 14 |
Here's the thing, I thought I'd chosen "indispensable". I know how that word is spelt, so I'm giving myself 49/50 on that test. 98% -- not so bad for an ESL learner, is it?
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Test 2
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You spelled 2 out of 50 words incorrectly:
aficionado (you chose: afficionado) - 74.14% of users also got this wrong |
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hyuck hyuck hyuck! How can a bright girl like you get that one wrong? (Having never heard it spoken before, I used to think that word was pronouced "ah-FICK-shun-ah-doh" and was cruelly jeered by my little playmates for it.)
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| Anyway, I feel naked and ashamed. |
Really?
Mod edit: please keep it clean, this is a family messageboard. |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not going to share all my mistakes with a bunch of trolls, but the news was a lot worse than I expected. And I got "harass" wrong again, even though JG corrected me a while back ... I remembered the correction, but not the correct spelling. 
I hope I didn't misspell it in any recent threads, but I probably did.
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Mod edit: please keep it clean, this is a family messageboard.
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I don't know what was deleted, but it must have been pretty bad. |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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You spelled 0 out of 50 words incorrectly.
Boring. AND it only took me about thirty seconds.
Too boring to do the rest. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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Mod edit: please keep it clean, this is a family messageboard.
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I don't know what was deleted, but it must have been pretty bad. |
Knowing JG, I suspect that nothing was deleted, and he wrote that himself. A remark like that doesn't get past his personal censor until certain hours of the evening have passed, and several vodka and tonics (with a twist of lemon) have passed through him. |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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Oh. I get the joke now.  |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:31 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Knowing JG, I suspect that nothing was deleted, and he wrote that himself. A remark like that doesn't get past his personal censor until certain hours of the evening have passed, and several vodka and tonics (with a twist of lemon) have passed through him. |
You know something? You're a mean little spoilsport when you want to be.
And it's l i m e, hang it all. Though I've been thinking of switching to a twist of frog.  |
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butlerian
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| Judgement and Judgment are both perfectly acceptable spellings. In a legal context, it is usually "judgment", but in a non-legal context then judgement is generally more popular. |
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