Spelling quiz

See how many you can get right - I only got 5. :( A few of the words I don't even know!

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4059953.stm

I only got 6 right and I consider myself a good speller!! wow

I only got 4 right :o

I'm with pitc9 - I only got 4. :o

I got seven right. Those were tricky and few I never heard of. :confused:

I got 4 right... never been much of a speller.

8 here .... dangerous liaisons!

*cough**cough* uhhh.... 3. :o And I was in the spelling bee!:eek:

I'm traumatized now -- only got 5 right... :o :( :eek:

3 but everyone already knows I am a bad speller lol and the ones I got right I has never heard the words before I guessed lol

i got 6 right.

I got 9 right:D I've always been a great speller though.

4!

I wonder if some of them are American English versus Brittish English spellings?

-GASPS- I got them all right! :eek:

I got 4 right

It says at the bottom to press the button. :confused: Stupid question, but I don't see a button...:o

I got five right!

I guess I can harass my colleagues :D

I've said it before, it's just because in Romanian we do pronounce every letter we write, and many times the words are spelled in English exactly like in Romanian, only pronounced differently. I wish my English pronunciation was as good as my spelling.

4-Minuscule spelling skills. I didn't even hear of some of those words. This was hard.

7 :rolleyes:

sshhh... dont tel anyone... i only got 2 right... lol.... back to kindergarten for me! hehe....

7 :rolleyes:

lmao!!

i got4 right:o :p :rolleyes:

8! :D

just 4 right

OMG, I had 7 right!!! He he, pretty good for me hey, as English is my 3rd language, and most of those words are unknown to me!!!

I only got 5 right. And I always thought I was a good speller!

9 right and 40 points in the hard spelling game on the BBC website:o :o :o

Karen!!! :eek: Brittish English! ;) ;)

Wow, I'm impressed how well some of you spell! ..... Well, it's not the end of the world if you get some of those wrong, they are difficult!

Barbara, I hadn't looked at the other one, you are really good!! :) I won't tell you what I got, but it was less that 30 points! :o

Here's the link to that one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/hardspell/