who's a good speller, and won't cheat?

fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:15 PM
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who's a good speller, and won't cheat?

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

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:17 PM
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1. I did horribly. btw.

at least considering how high and mighty I am about my ability to spell...I missed 13 :-(

Signed,
low and feeble speller.

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seafey

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:24 PM
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6. Me too

I'm very high and mighty about spelling too and I missed 11! :( That's good though. I'm much humbled!!!!!!!!

:)

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:28 PM
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8. I find solace in that these are 'often misspelled words' according

to the creator of the test. I know I can't be alone. But gimme a hard word I've never seen and I can usually figure it out, as long as you use it in a sentence.

(again, nothing noted on spell check) LOL, I am obsessive now! OH, except that 'spell check' is two words. I like it better as a compound word.

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BurtWorm

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:31 PM
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12. Oh, really? Spell "chiliastic"!

I bet ya can't!

;)

By the way, I used to think spelling was a sign of intelligence until I met one of the most intelligent writers I've ever known who was an abyssmal speller. Bottom of the barrel. Couldn't spell his way out of a kindergarten. But a brilliant writer--and a great editor--nevertheless. So take heart, all ye lousy spellers.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:36 PM
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15. c h i l i a s t i c.

relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness

very nice...hadn't heard that one. Kinda hard to have a spelling challenge online... :-)

spell the word that means: "Coming before the next to the last in a series." (from dictionary.com)

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BurtWorm

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:37 PM
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16. Wow!

Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:42 PM by BurtWorm

That was good!

:wow:

Penultimate.

PS: "Chiliastic" was in the book I'm currently reading: Pol Pot, by Philip Stone. There've actually been a bunch of words in this book that have sent me to the dictionary, which is rare in a book these days.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:39 PM
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21. Antepenultimate!

nanny nanny boo boo! ;-P

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BurtWorm

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:43 PM
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27. D'oh!

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:50 PM
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33. Gotcha!

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Redstone

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:18 PM
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2. Way, WAY too easy...

50.

Redstone

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:20 PM
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3. screw you. find one that's harder.

Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:25 PM by fleabert

I am feeling a bit like a dumb ass. I have become too reliant on spell check and my skills are weak.

-although spell check found nothing to complain about in this message-

on edit, btw, there's nothing but sarcasm in the subject line. :-) although I would like to see a hard one, IYO...and see how I do. I like a challenge.

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n2mark

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:28 PM
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9. Damn

I got 10 wrong, thought my spelling was a strong point. In high school we took a 100 word spelling test, I made two spelling errors.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:40 PM
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22. same here, I was always in the top three for spelling bees at school.

age has it's issues!

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Redstone

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:29 PM
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10. Don't take it personally...

I agree with Mark Twain--good spelling ability is something you're born with, so it's not anything to be proud of, because you didn't have to work for it.

It's also a curse; bad spelling is very irritating to good spellers. Just like people with perfect pitch can have problems listening to music because they can hear that ONE string in the piano that's slightly out of tune.

PS: Never rely on spell checkers when it's something important. A spell-checker won't notice that you typed "saw" when you meant to type "was."

The best way to check anything you write is to read it aloud. Always works.

Redstone

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:38 PM
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19. :-) I always edit backwards. works like a charm. aloud is good too.

spell checkers are good for things like this, but I don't stake my life on them.

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bigwillq

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:23 PM
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4. I got 39 of 49 right

I skipped one!Silly me!

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WildClarySage

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:23 PM
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5. missed 10.

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BurtWorm

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:24 PM
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7. I missed 6.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:43 PM
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28. Top four so far (five if you count a daughter of Mrs Grumpy)

Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 05:44 PM by fleabert

Kudos!

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immoderate

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:29 PM
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11. I missed 22 and I think I'm a good speller.

I used to win spelling bees in school. Ah, but that was long ago.

--IMM

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:52 PM
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36. I think it's a big boat we are on together! :-)

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immoderate

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Mon Mar-21-05 06:17 PM
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40. Nobody uses those words anyway.

--IMM

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ScreamingMeemie

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:34 PM
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13. I missed four. My 15 year old spelling champ daughter? None.

Sigh....

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:44 PM
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29. still impressive my dear! Top four!

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pinniped

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:35 PM
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14. Some of the so-called incorrect words are variants of the other.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:38 PM
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20. the author has a caveat about that...

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dr.strangelove

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:37 PM
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17. I missed 5

Those were tough.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:43 PM
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24. I am impressed. you and redstone move to the head of the class...

along with the daughter mentioned above!

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dr.strangelove

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:51 PM
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35. I'm not

Spelling and $2.00 will get me a subway ride. I'm just a geek who went over spelling words dozens of times with my grandma. She'd be proud.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 06:00 PM
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39. well that's something then. your grandma and I are both impressed.

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LynzM

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:37 PM
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18. Wow, did I do poorly

I missed 14:

desiccate
privilege
desperate
embarrassment
battalion
consensus
inadvertent
minuscule
inoculate
existence
sacrilegious
insistent
anoint
supersede

Not that I'm surprised. I agree, these are the types of words I usually rely on spell check to catch for me. Anything that's a ent/ant ending usually trips me up, with a few exceptions that I've memorized because I use them often.

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:42 PM
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23. we had some similar misses, some of these I have on 'auto correct'

since I misspell them consistently.

(again, I have to say, spell check found 0 here!)

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LynzM

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:48 PM
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31. Yup...

I'm good at 'everyday' spelling, and generally catching my typos. Otherwise... computers make us lazy! :)

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LiberalEsto

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:43 PM
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25. Missed 4

darn it

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:45 PM
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30. that is pretty damn good...there's a short list with less than 6 misses.

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LiberalEsto

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:49 PM
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32. Thanks

I'm a professional writer, but missing 4 explains why I was a dud at proofreading.

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jswordy

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:43 PM
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26. I have a girlfriend who is a great speller...but she cheats on me.

LOL

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fleabert

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:51 PM
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34. probably because you can't spell...right?

:-)

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deadparrot

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:57 PM
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37. Missed 9.

Blah.

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redqueen

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Mon Mar-21-05 05:58 PM
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38. I missed 9.

Bah.

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