Tuesday, May 31, 2005

How vel kan you spel?

Fascinating language that English is, and given its continual evolution into a repository of words from every which language/dialect of the world, it is no surprise that we have ended up with a ton of words with weird spellings.

Courtesy MSN Encarta, comes a test for your spelling acumen.

Have fun!

Musing on the Nth Dimension at 14:58

8 comments:

saranyan r said...

oohhh I got 15/15 :) ennalaye namba mudiyala :)

31 May, 2005 16:01
Narayanan Venkitu said...

I got 13/15, Wonderful. I thought the test will change If I went again. Looks like it doesn't.!

01 June, 2005 18:45
The Last Blogger said...

Good test. I screwed up on the "pronunciation" thing. Nice link.

02 June, 2005 08:18
Nth Dimension said...

Saranyan, maybe you are what they refer to as a walking dictionary :P

Narayanan, if it was an adaptable test, I am sure it would not be available for free.

Ranga, you are welcome. Vacuum and pronunciation are two words that I think I am bound to screw up at one time or the other...

02 June, 2005 10:20
ioiio said...

I got screwed by wierd.. Weird seems to be an exception.. and sad that I wasnt wired with the dictionary..

08 June, 2005 12:12
Nth Dimension said...

Unless I am missing something here and leisurely did not bother to seize the moment to learn something new, why is weird an exception?

08 June, 2005 12:28
ioiio said...

Bcoz Weird is a word.

09 June, 2005 00:37
Nth Dimension said...

Dr C,

It is because of this loose structure that non-native speakers of English (including yours truly) have been able to latch on to this language.

14 June, 2005 23:27

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