My daughter just sent this to me. Must be "let's humiliate Mom" day.
http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html

I missed 17! Very humbling after getting 100% on last reader's digest volcabulary quiz.

Aw geeze. 13 wrong!

Oh yikes! I missed 14. How humiliating, indeed.

Shute, I mist nintine and cant' figur out wy! Im' vary hummeled! LOL

Interesting that all the people who frequent LCT and are born on November 5th did this. I misspelled 14 two.

You missed 2 words.
Here are the correct spellings of the ones you got wrong:


weird
occurrence


Then again, I flubbed "syzygy" in a spelling bee championship in jhs. Yes, it really is a word!

Bill

Marc, I tied you with 17. That was HARD!

16 wrong for me and I thought I was a good speller. sigh

I'm in the 17 group. Thank you, spell check, or is it spellcheck?

The inability of spell check programs to replace the human mind is further illustrated by the poem Ode to my spell checker (author unknown):

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marks four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word and weight for it to say
Weather eye yam wrong oar write.
It shows me strait a weigh as soon as a mist ache is maid.
It nose bee fore two long and eye can put the error rite.
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased to no.
Its letter perfect awl the way.
My checker told me sew.

Circleboy: That ia great!!

Eye miszed 14.

Even better Denise -

It's amazing how many words you think you know how to spell, but can't quite remember. I missed 5. Thank goodness for spell-check!

Diana

My posts keep saying error - loved your syzygy post Bill -

Guess we know who has the brains in our family!

Don

Does Spelling Matter?
Many people say no, but I disagree. Some people think bad spelling makes you seem stupid. People who say it's not important often point out that many brilliant people are lousy spellers.

Bad spelling makes you look lazy. That's my opinion on the subject. It's true that some geniuses can't spell, but some geniuses walk around with gravy stains on their shirts. That's what bad spelling seems like to me: a big, obvious gravy stain in the middle of your writing.

If you wouldn't wear stained, smelly clothing, you shouldn't be content to have misspelled words all over your letters, articles, stories, or Web pages.

Sometimes the simplest of words look as if they're spelled incorrectly.

I think spell-check has made us forget how to spell!

Joanna, what you've said makes very good sense!

Okay, when I first posted that test, I did not want to admit my score, because on "other" tests that are put out here, I am usually in the "dumb" pile on the bottom. Like Arlene, I thought I was a good speller. SO, my score was 11 wrong, not bad with what everyone else got. I think my hand-eye coordination is not so good, however, like on that snow ball thing. I did not get a certificate for anything when I tried it.

Joanna, love your analysis! I guess I would have a big, obvious gravy stain on my tie, if I wore one!

Sorry, Olivia, I think you have too much class for that Gravy Stain.

Kathy, you are so nice!

Well, everyone here can relax, I missed 24. No one else will do that bad! I think I am hooked on Phonics :)

I used to win spelling bees when I was a kid. I'm a writer. I spot misspellings all the time, I can't help myself. I've done editing work and consider myself a pretty good editor. I've always thought of myself as a better than average speller.

.....And I missed 17!!! I'm so ashamed... :o

eyv allwayz cunsidrd myslf too bee a gud spllr. tHyz tst muST bee rygd!

Missed 11 and I thought I was a good speller. Oh well, thank goodness for spellcheck. Funnee, Denise.

Don't feel bad LeeAnne, this writer(and former excellent speller) missed 18 <img border="0" alt="[c]" title="" src="graemlins/c.gif" /> !

I misspelled drunkenness. Go figure. I still think that the correct spelling looks wrong!

I also just misspelled misspell. But my wonderful Google spell checker caught it! That is the best invention since the internet!

Karen, I remember you telling us about Google spell check here on LCT but I don't see it? I don't think I ever downloaded it. I need it!

Marcie, do you use Google toolbar ? If you already do, just go to your Google toolbar preferences and check the spell checker. It is the greatest! Just clik on the spell checker and it highlites and replaces the misspelled words!

Here is an example of the spell checker in action:

does it say ABC check?? I see that.

Yes, that is your spell check. When you are finished typing something, just click on that.

I missed 12. I'm with LeeAnne...I thought I was a good speller!!! What I can use as my lame excuse: I'm Guatemalan??? <img border="0" alt="[c]" title="" src="graemlins/c.gif" />

I can hear Peter yelling at me "NICE TRY!!"

I don't want to admit how many I missed. I used to teach school too.

I missed 8, and I'm a darned good speller. Those were some hard words!

I thought "finally, a test I can do!" HA! Missed 10! :(

Bette, if I were a school teacher, I would NEVER admit anything! Looking forward to seeing you next week! Tuesday at dinner, right? Wandra, I think you come in 2nd behind Nancy, or was it Bill?

Defintely Bill - he can't spell weird...WIERD???

Hi Joanna--

It is just one of those words that looks wrong to me either way. I would say its w----- that I can't spell it, but I would rather say it is strange that I never seem to get it right. Oddly enough, when I missed on "syzygy" in the spelling bee, the other final contestant had to spell one additional word to win. The word was "liquefy" which was one of the words on the test!

Bill