Spelling bee

[magid]

Actually, more like a spelling test. Yesterday afternoon, I went to try my spelling fu with 18 others, to see who'd get to be on the spelling team our company is sending to a fundraiser for adult literacy next month.

I did ok, a bit above average (mean, median, and mode :-). There were 26 words, each starting with a different letter.

What were the words? They're listed below, arranged from most often spelled correctly to least. And no, I didn't get the last one. I can spell it properly in Hebrew, though.

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lovey-dovey
hibachi
claque
muntin
xyloid
novercal
inveigle
pterodactyl
scherzando
quisling
whisht
gutta-percha
blancmange
voussoir
exophthalmic
onomatopoeia
joual
ailurophile
dyspnea
yapok
kylikes
ferule
thalweg
zizith

Comments

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty bad at spelling aloud, actually; it helped me that this was written, so I could write things down and see if they 'looked right' (I didn't realize 'til I was grown up that this doesn't work for lots of people.). Though I didn't know enough of these that there was a lot of guessing.

The family that de-oatmeals together, um...? :-)

[danger-chick.livejournal.com]

I am better on paper than verbally, too, which makes that Cranium category of spelling backwards very difficult for me.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I haven't played Cranium, but I bet I'd suck at spelling backwards, too.