mine is only ok. 6/10
tell me how you do…
6/10
All my errors look like grammatical anomalies. (they don’t look like how you’d expect them to be spelled)
BTW this is RICH coming from BBC news online.
9/10. OTOH, I already knew I don’t know how to spell accommodate. (That second “m” just looks wrong to me.)
Hmph, I missed two. And one of the one’s I missed, MerriamWebster has my chosen spelling as a variant so it’s really only one.
Supersede and supercede are both right.
So are miniscule and minuscule.
So. I reject this test.
I knew about supersede and supercede. I have written about it here before. I did not know both miniscule and minuscule were ok. So I am 7/10! Though not BBC official. So back to 6/10.
If that’s true I scored 8.
P.s. after the test I tried both (my spellings) in Word. It rejected them as erroneous
10/10.
I think there is a color/colour discrepancy here. Bogus test.
I scored 10 on this rule.
Hmmph. Can you do dead hard sums as well though? huh? huh?
10/10
10/10.
I’d like to see a valid cite for “miniscule” being correct. MW11 says this (bolding mine):
Similarly for “supercede.”
dot dot.
Nope. I didn’t get the math gene. Sorry!
10/10.
I didn’t see any words in the test for which I know that standard spelling differs between the UK and the US.
“Supercede” and “miniscule” are indeed errors, based on a false analogy with “cede” (the suffix is from sedere, to sit - i.e. to sit above - not caedere, to fall) and “mini-”. My Random House Webster’s (US) and Canadian Oxford agree, although the Random House describes “miniscule” as a spelling error that is now so common that “many” regard it as a variant spelling.
“Accommodate” was the most difficult one for me. I know it has two c’s, but for the m’s I just have to remember that “commode” and “commodious” have two m’s as well.
9/10 for me… i got “harass” wrong (I chose harrass :smack: )
Considering I work as a copy editor that is quite poor, although in my defence I would have looked that one up if I came across it at work.
And for all those who say “supercede” and “miniscule” are “acceptable variants”, I say “balderdash”
(I wonder if those that insist that “miniscule” is OK would also accept “majiscule” as its opposite?)
I thought I had done OK at 6/10. Now I am feeling the bluntest tool in the block. Has ANYONE done worse than me?
Woohoo! 10 outta 10!
I am so smart…I am so smart…S-M-R-T…I mean S-M-A-R-T…