We went to see the movie The Duchess over the weekend. The most important thing I learned was that Duchess does not have a “T”. I had always spelled it “Dutchess”. Maybe it is the Dutch spelling. in the same vein for at least 20 years I spelled warehouse: wharehouse as in whorehouse. Finally somebody corrected me.
This link (courtesy of Joe S.) takes you to a test of spelling ability:
The 25 Most Commonly Misspelled Words
The test does not include wharehouse or dutchess.
I scored 52% (poor) and I thought I was a pretty good speler.
Let me know how you did.
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Simon,
The link for the spelling test does not work.
Thanks for the heads up.
Fixed it
Sorry
I got a 60%, and I always thought I was a godd speler to.
I must say, though, that I think it’s harder to correctly spell a word when you’re looking at the incorrect spellings.
I knew I could not spell and I was right, 32%
56%
52%, but I’ve never felt I was even an average speeler.
That’s why engineers invented spell check!