Sound it out. That's what my teachers would tell me when I was learning to read and write in kindergarten. Let's face it, "sounding it out" isn't all that effective in adulthood.
Does anyone else find themselves typing out the word "are" instead "our" because they sound similar in your head? The English language doesn't help either. The rules are completely arbitrary.
"I before E except after C." Lies! I mean just ask the word "neighbor' or "weigh" or "science."
Spelling is hard. Almost every English teacher I've ever had prefaced the beginning of the school year with, "Pardon my bad spelling." Even the pros aren't pros and with a spell-checking culture — do we really need to know how to spell completely precisely anymore? The nerd part of me says yes, while the tech-y part of me whispers: It's OK to rely on technology, that's what the kids are bopping to anyways.
So, did your brain retain all that primary school info? Can you pass our spelling test of commonly misspelled words? Take the quiz and see.
Please SHARE if you're sick of people constantly correcting your grammar!
1. Is it "Cemetary" or "Cemetery?"
2. Is it "Calendar" or "Calender"?
3. Is it "Dounot," "Doughnut" or "Donut?"
4. Is it "Harass" or "Harrass"?
Click to the next page for a real challenge!
5. Is it "Firey," Firery" or "Fiery"?
6. Is it "Barbecue" or Barbeque"?
7. Is it "Publicly," "Publically" or "Pubically"?
8. Is it "Viscious" or "Vicious"?
The next one trips people up all the time! Click to the next page to see if YOU can get it right!
9. Is it "Twelth" or "Twelfth"?
10. Is it "Arctic" or "Artic"?
11. Is it "Drunkeness" or "Drunkenness" or "Drunkness"?
12. Is it "Relevant" or "Relevent"?
If these weren't challenging enough, click to the next page for a word that's misspelled in more than one way!
13. Is it "Pastime," "Passtime," or "Pasttime"?
14. Is it "Pronunciation" or "Pronounciation"?
15. Is it "Tommorrow" or "Tomorrow"?
16. Is it "Loser" or "Looser"?
Keep clicking to the next page for some more common misspellings!
17. Is it "Readble," Readable" or "Readible"?
18. Is it "Occasion" or "Occassion"?
19. Is it "Percieve" or "Perceive"?
20. Is it "Millenium," "Milennium," or "Millennium"?
