April 22, 2004

Spell-lympics!

As a follow-up to some recent discussion, both on- and off-blog, on spelling here in these the aughts, I present a little quiz. I'm no George Plimpton, but I missed only three. (I would tell you which ones, but I don't want to spoil it for the rest of you wordsmiths.)

To the wordmobile!

Posted by redstripe at April 22, 2004 08:57 PM
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Missed ten. D'oh!

This is a pretty comprehensive sampling of common but often misspelled words.

Am I misspelling "misspelled"? I don't even know.

Posted by: sleepnotwork at April 23, 2004 09:13 AM

I missed one–desiccate.

Posted by: mallarme at April 23, 2004 03:23 PM

So you're saying I'm retarded, right? That's what you're saying? Well bring it on, Spelly McSpellsalot.

We'll see how well you can spell after I BREAK A CHAIR OVER YOUR HEAD.

Posted by: sleepnotwork at April 23, 2004 03:57 PM

Hehehe... not judging, just sharing.

Posted by: mallarme at April 23, 2004 04:16 PM

Yikes.... Missed 9 words. Went through pretty fast, though.

Posted by: Scott at April 24, 2004 04:24 AM

Excuses, excuses. We all know you can't speel.

Posted by: mallarme at April 24, 2004 08:58 AM
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