The Blogger Spelling Test

22 Responses to “The Blogger Spelling Test”

• Andrew Fluscheon July 17, 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. 🙂

• Danielon July 18, 2007 12:50 am

  Yeah it is for sure a linkbait, in fact the main site has nothing to do with the topic.

• Faiscaon July 18, 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 mapellion July 18, 2007 8:02 am

  87% 🙁

  but I don’t know where I was wrong! 🙁

• Razeenon July 18, 2007 9:56 am

  All of you get a nice score, i just get 80% 🙂

• Danielon July 18, 2007 10:57 am

  Faisca, yeah in fact I just manage it 🙂 . The head “tipper” is Maeve, our English Ph.D.!

• Celebrienneon July 18, 2007 11:18 am

  Wow! I got the whooping 100% – I’m the greatest of all 😉

• Maeveon July 18, 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.

• Faiscaon July 18, 2007 5:17 pm

  Maeve, I had to think for a bit about embarrassment as well! That’s a tricky word.

• Daniel Nordstromon July 18, 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. 😉

• Danielon July 18, 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!

• Roshawnon July 18, 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 Tiraon July 20, 2007 9:04 pm

  I got 93% too, not bad considering English isn’t my primary language.

• Harrisonon July 22, 2007 12:32 pm

  93% and I quite happy with this results
  At least I score A for this test 🙂

• melanieon August 16, 2007 12:50 am

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

  thanks a lot

• DPeachon September 04, 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.

• Tomon October 13, 2007 2:24 am

  I got 93%. I really got confused with embarrasment/embarrassment.

• Idetrorceon December 15, 2007 9:58 pm

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

• Aliceon December 24, 2008 4:01 pm

  I got 93%, too. I was hoping for 100%, but it’s better than 2%.

• Philon July 31, 2009 7:14 pm

  It’s definitely not definately.

  I’m absolutely sick of seeing the word definitely misspelled as definately on blogs and websites not to mention texts.

  Come on folks, at least make the effort. The correct way is ou thee of you really care.

• Ana Foriolon February 14, 2010 11:38 am

  got 87% not bad..

• blazel foriolon July 19, 2010 7:47 am

  i don’t believe him but i can’t help myself to follow my heart not escape but to love him more and more…