The Blogger Spelling Test

Bloggers do get a misspelled word once in a while (some bloggers more often than that, but anyway). If you want to test your skills you can try the Blogger Spelling Test.

There are 15 questions with common misspelled words. Most of them are quite easy, just don’t run through the questions or you might end up getting one wrong like I did, for my embarassment.

Via: Fiasca’s Corner

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Daniel Scocco on July 17, 2007 | Filed Under Spelling

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19 Responses to “The Blogger Spelling Test”

Andrew Flusche on July 17th, 2007 11:21 pm

Hey Daniel,

That’s a spiffy piece of linkbait that mingle2 created. I love it!

Hmm, I only scored 87%. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a writing tips blog.
Daniel on July 18th, 2007 12:50 am

Yeah it is for sure a linkbait, in fact the main site has nothing to do with the topic.
Faisca on July 18th, 2007 1:00 am

You manage a blog called Daily Writing Tips and you only scored a 93%?? What is wrong with you!?

Totally just kidding. There were a few of those I had to look at twice, I can definitely see how you could overlook some random stuff.

Thanks for the link!
francesco mapelli on July 18th, 2007 8:02 am

87%

but I don’t know where I was wrong!
Razeen on July 18th, 2007 9:56 am

All of you get a nice score, i just get 80%
Daniel on July 18th, 2007 10:57 am

Faisca, yeah in fact I just manage it . The head “tipper” is Maeve, our English Ph.D.!
Celebrienne on July 18th, 2007 11:18 am

Wow! I got the whooping 100% - I’m the greatest of all
Maeve on July 18th, 2007 11:47 am

Daniel,
You’ll be relieved to know that I scored the 100%, but I almost slipped up on “embarrassment.” Which would have been one!

As a teacher, I never cared for the type of spelling test that requires students to look at misspelled words. I think such tests tend to reinforce incorrect spellings.

I enjoyed taking this one, though.
Faisca on July 18th, 2007 5:17 pm

Maeve, I had to think for a bit about embarrassment as well! That’s a tricky word.
Daniel Nordstrom on July 18th, 2007 6:32 pm

Only 87% but I guess that it is decent as I’m not a native English speaker/writer. Luckily, I did nicely on my american college english test though. College level it was!

Anyhow, there’s always Apples automatic spellchecker.
Daniel on July 18th, 2007 6:59 pm

Daniel, the problem of some of those words is that spell checkers won’t catch the mistake.

Like then/than or loose/lose. Both are correct words with different meaning. So make sure to proof read also after running the spell checker!
Roshawn on July 18th, 2007 11:12 pm

I attempted to post the html code from my test here on Daily Writing Tips. That didn’t go so well, so I’ll have to resort to telling you how I scored.

100% baby!! Yeah!!! Hooray for me!!! Yay!!!

That just proves that I’ve been reading Daily Writing Tip. :-0
Dumitru Tira on July 20th, 2007 9:04 pm

I got 93% too, not bad considering English isn’t my primary language.
Harrison on July 22nd, 2007 12:32 pm

93% and I quite happy with this results
At least I score A for this test
melanie on August 16th, 2007 12:50 am

93% is not bad…i will share the words with my kids to remind them.

thanks a lot
DPeach on September 4th, 2007 9:15 pm

87%

Not surprised. I really struggle with my spelling. Fortunately, my wife who is an excellent speller, reads most of my blog postings within a day or two of putting them out there. She keeps me straight.
Tom on October 13th, 2007 2:24 am

I got 93%. I really got confused with embarrasment/embarrassment.
Idetrorce on December 15th, 2007 9:58 pm

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce