How well do you spell?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

Apparently I sux…er suc…er suk…
I missed 8. And you?

http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html

2

I missed 14, and I’m generally an excelent speller. Damn.

3

missed 3, one of which is embarrassment, which is a word I know I don’t know how to spell, so I’m okay with that.

4

Well, according to that bastion of knowledge dictionary.com, if either of you “misspelled” minuscule as “miniscule”, you were actually correct.

The others I got wrong:

desiccate
indispensable
privilege
embarrassment
cemetery
consensus
minuscule
millennium
inoculate
sacrilegious
insistent
supersede
all right

I was under the impression that the “all right/alright” thing depended on the use.

5

missed 3, one of which is embarrassment, which is a word I know I don’t know how to spell, so I’m okay with that.

6

I missed 19. I should practise my spellin moore.

7

FWIW…she says that

Damn spelling Nazis :wink:

8

You know, I can almost feel the presence of Gaudere’s Law hanging over this thread.

9

Missed four. I suspect a number of lucky guesses were involved in that score, as I was only certain of perhaps half of the answers.

10

Wow, I did BADLY, missed 15! I’m usually pretty good at spelling (though, not typing).

11

Let’s just say, that considering there’s 50, I would have had better luck with my eyes closed and guessed at the answers. I missed almost half of them

12

I missed 4.

desiccate
minuscule
inoculate
anoint

I’ve always been a good speller, but I thought I’d do worse. I mean, jeez, all the words whose spelling I’ve ever been uncertain about were on that test.

13

Take the average ‘good speller’.

Take the 5 or less percent of words that he/she spells wrongly.

I bet most or all of the words from that website are on that list.

That’s my defence.

The people who got like 4 missed words must be very good spellers.

14

I am a lousy speller. I hardly needed a test to confirm it. In any event, it is confirmed. This is why I pay a secretary big bucks.

15

eYe spail tErryball

16

missed 21. Leader so far?

17

Youch, and I’m the one my co-workers all ask when they need to spell a word.

11 wrong:

* desiccate
* liquefy
* ecstasy
* minuscule
* judgment
* inoculate
* sacrilegious
* insistent
* supersede
* irresistible
* harass

The sad part is, other than the last three, I was really confident about how I’d spelled the others.

18

I accidentally skipped 5 and I missed 22.

19

“Minuscule”…feh! Miss High-and-Mighty Copy Editor Mindy is cordially invited to bugger off. I will use any variant spelling that suits my sense of aesthetics.

Given that, I didn’t miss any words. I have a peculiar knack for spelling, and I’ve suffered from obsolescence anxiety ever since spellcheckers were introduced. :wink:

I sense Gaudere looming over me…

20

I missed 5 words:

  • indispensable
  • inoculate
  • sacrilegious
  • supersede
  • harass

Not so bad (except “harass”…I always mess those kinds of words up…too many R’s or not enough S’s), but definitely some lucky guesses in there.