How well do you spell?

[Jorath Calar]

13/15

Got Absorption and Occurrance wrong... pretty good I think... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Sever]

Originally posted by dnatabar: Heh, well Weird is one of the few words i always remember its wierd ;P //Ronin

I'm ashamed to admit this, but whenever i come across a simple word that i'm not sure about, (stop laughing!) i revert to the old fashioned rhyme thingys that were drilled into me 15 years ago in kiddy wink school. In this case: "i before e, except after c, or before gh". Maybe my memory's a bit off, but the word weird just doesn't fit this rule. Have i been blatently misled in my primary education? Or am i jus getn old? Ferkin wierd man!

[Edit: Welcome to IW, dnatabar! [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img] ]

[ 08-14-2005, 08:16 AM: Message edited by: Sever ]

[Jorath Calar]

Just remember kids:

‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’
and when sounding like ‘a’
as in neighbor and weigh
and on weekends and holidays
and all throughout May
and you’ll always be wrong
no matter what you say.”

Thats how I was taught it... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Flaming Fist Enforcer]

I'm happy with my 10 correct answers...

[Pop 'n Fresh]

Zephyr or zepher

encyclopedia or encyclopaedia

colour or color

Continent or Continant

conquerors or conquerers

dungeon or dunegon


Fairly basic but a few are trick.

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Pop 'n Fresh: Zephyr or zepher encyclopedia or encyclopaedia colour or color Continent or Continant conquerors or conquerers dungeon or dunegon Fairly basic but a few are trick.

How are these difficult? I can't even imagine someone misspelling 'dungeon' as 'dunegon', to be honest. And encyclopedia/encyclopaedia are both allowed as far as I know, though the former is more common in use; colour/color simply depends on the fact whether you're (resp.) British or American.

[ 08-15-2005, 08:45 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Pop 'n Fresh]

The first 2 words of the bottom line reads?

[Grojlach]

Originally posted by Pop 'n Fresh: The first 2 words of the bottom line reads?

*sigh*
Like I pointed out, some of them aren't really wrong, while the dungeon one is just plain ridiculous. It's possible people accidently write 'dunegon' because they're typing like crazy, but I can't imagine anyone to write it like that systematically. If you're trying to expand on the original idea, you might want to take words that actually do cause difficulties or even have a wrong variant.