I got 11/15. I was pleased because I can't spell and rely on checking everything before I post it. I can usually tell when a word is wrong but I don't know the correct way to spell it so I try a different word. Sometimes spell check doesn't know what I mean!!
13 for me, slipped up on minuscule and graffiti. Even now auto-correct had to correct me, so it's interesting that my mispellings are so ingrained.
I feel a bit embarrassed too, so I almost didn't post this, granted they're not words I'd use every day but they're hardly uncommon to the socio-cultural vernacular.
14/15. I don't think I've ever written the word 'minuscule' before, so I put 'miniscule', thinking of mini being small. Oh well, you learn something new every day!
I got 14/15 and I fell for the miniscule as well.:D
I think I would have got them all correct if I was actually writing them in a sentence, however, when I see the correct spelling against 2 other incorrect spellings, I start to question myself?!!!!
I got 13/15 - doubted myself on a few and ended up picking the wrong ones. I am surprised some of them are on the list, I thought they were quite easy (psy... Being one of them, dotted for those that have not done it!), but a few I felt were definitely worthy of that list!
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oh alright 9/15
13/15 second time around. So at least it's educational.
(Millennium and Questionnaire were the culprits. But, those double Ns still look wrong...)
Sorry HJB but anyone who got 15 spelt one of the words in the old way and not what is now the majority way:
That's the one that tripped me in this test. Got 14/15 as a result.
10/15.
That was the only one I got wrong, although I'm glad it is now considered an alternative spelling
Thanks for the link, Hieronymous
You got some wrong on the second attempt, even after seeing the four you got wrong?
No, they've spelled their correct minuscule right. I've just looked it up in Oxford dictionary to make sure.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/minuscule
I feel a bit embarrassed too, so I almost didn't post this, granted they're not words I'd use every day but they're hardly uncommon to the socio-cultural vernacular.
The one about the pupil that likes his "meth" teacher
Minuscule is one that often catches people out because it's easy to think it's "miniscule" since something which is very small is "mini"
Another word I remember from that article was supersede. I would have thought it was supercede, but no.
Yes. (I presumably didn't know two, and guessed. ThenI didn't really notice in what way the right answers differed from mine.)
But I suspect I'd get 15/15 on the third attempt. (Now that those double Ns have been drummed into my brain.)
I got 14/15 and I fell for the miniscule as well.:D
Same here.
The words I got wrong are,
1. Mischievous
2. Graffiti
3. Minuscule
4. Pronunciation (I have always spelt it Pronounciation, surprised when it turned out wrong)
5. Millennium