The Oxford Dictionaries Spelling Challenge



The Oxford Dictionaries offers a spelling test you can take online. Words are pronounced for you, so turn your speakers on. I aced the Tricky level. On both the Difficult and the Fiendish levels, I scored 14 of 15. I actually spell pretty well, thanks to years of writing under the supervision of spellcheck and commenters. The misspellings you see in my posts are mostly due to my horrid typing skills. Let us know how you do on this quiz! Link -via TYWKIWDBI

Nope. I kicked ass even on "Fiendish" level in both British and US English.

...and as I grew up in Italy, I take exceptional pride in my results. :)

That sound? Me patting myself on the back.
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I'd like to be able to blame the pronunciation, but my lower than expected scores are probably just a side effect of my reliance on auto-correct.
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They are indeed quite hard to hear sometimes (in American as well as British English), and the vocabulary in the Fiendish section tends to throw some really unfair foreign words at you. Fusilli and focaccia, for instance, I could only deduce because they're the same (Italian, duh) words in German. Never heard them with an English accent before...

But it's hailing my superior spelling skills, so that's OK (;

Speaking as a non-native, I think the British English is a bit easier to understand.
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This game is broken. It kept telling all of them were wrong, even when I got them right. How dare it tells me that I don't know how to spell incessant? Sheesh!
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I played it on the American pronunciation and misspelled 'cuff'. Afterwards found out the girl was saying 'cough'.

What a joy it is to read the comments for this article; they're all spelled correctly!
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I found the accents difficult too. I listened to the British english first and then the American but I found both difficult to understand on some words. The American accent seemed more difficult which surprised me because I thought my "Canadian" ears would pick up the American more clearly.
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It would be easier if you could understand what they were saying half the time. Talk about thick accents.

I listened to guard twice and thought for sure they said god.
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