how good is your spelling?

mine is only ok. 6/10

tell me how you do…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4059953.stm

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. :slight_smile:

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? :slight_smile:

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” :wink:

(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? :stuck_out_tongue:

Woohoo! 10 outta 10!

I am so smart…I am so smart…S-M-R-T…I mean S-M-A-R-T…