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.

url
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

I know, i know, i know

[missdimple.livejournal.com]

....at least one! :)

Muntin.

Does anyone else know what that is?

And can you name the alternative M word that means the same thing?

Re: I know, i know, i know

[magid.livejournal.com]

Well, they gave the definition at the bee (and in the correct key they handed out later), so, um, sorta. Not that I did before the bee, though.

Mullion? At least, that's what I kept thinking of when the reader was pronouncing it again after the definition.

(And I'd hope you'd know at least two! (Url being, well, self-spelling.))