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The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance

Type all of the words to the very famous USA Pledge of Allegiance which many school children are forced to recite.
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Last updated: January 2, 2020
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First submittedJuly 9, 2015
Times taken17,157
Average score90.3%
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Word
I
Pledge
Allegiance
to
the
Flag
of
the
Word
United
States
of
America
and
to
the
Republic
Word
for
which
it
stands
one
Nation
under
God
Word
indivisible
with
liberty
and
justice
for
all
90 Comments
+4
Level 76
Mar 11, 2017
Too much time. One minute would keep it interesting.
+31
Level 82
Mar 13, 2017
Not everyone is american...
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Level 78
Jul 28, 2022
lol
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Level 64
Dec 30, 2022
No one ever heard that before.
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Level 65
Mar 14, 2017
But it takes that one minute to spell indivisible!
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Level 67
Jul 25, 2017
Fun fact: "indivisibility" is the only word in the English language with the same vowel repeated six times and no other vowels. Or maybe it's just the only word with the same vowel six times. You get the idea.
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Level 87
Jan 12, 2019
Pretty sure the "y" at the end of indivisibility is a vowel . . .
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Level 65
Oct 1, 2024
I've never seen Rachel Riley pull a "Y" out of the "vowels" section on Countdown.
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Level 51
Dec 28, 2022
What about "indivisibilities" ?
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Level 70
Dec 28, 2022
... with "no other vowels"
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Level 71
Jul 22, 2017
Not American, so I only got 11 by guessing, earning 0/5 points. If you're not American, it's unlikely you will get very many, regardless of time.
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Level 67
Jul 23, 2017
I've never actually heard the pledge myself so the time limit was fine for me. I was pretty proud of myself for getting 17/31
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Level 78
Mar 12, 2017
Waiting for the vehement pedantry about "Under God" not in the original...
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Level 54
Jun 30, 2017
You bet. Clearly those who added it in the 1950s (out of fear of godless commies, no doubt) were unfamiliar with the first amendment.

But I have to agree with the comment below, I think swearing allegiance to a piece of fabric is odd at best.

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Level 77
Jul 23, 2017
I'm Canadian but may I just say that you are not 'swearing allegiance to a piece of fabric' but rather to what that 'piece of fabric'; as you call it, symbolizes. Personally when I see our Maple Leaf flying whether here in Canada or in other countries in front of our embassy or elsewhere, I am moved & proud to call myself Canadian. Aren't you proud to call yourself American?
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Level 69
Sep 30, 2020
Actually, according to the wording, you are both swearing allegiance to the piece of cloth *and* what it stands for. Very odd indeed.
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Level 65
Dec 28, 2022
Proud Canadian has become an oxymoron
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Level 51
Dec 29, 2022
Whereas you're just a regular moron
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Level 64
Dec 30, 2022
"AND to the nation for which it stands."

Read what's written.

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Level 49
Jan 1, 2023
When I spent a brief amount in time in American schools, the Pledge of Allegiance never struck me as weird at all.

In India, where I am from, many schools have a prayer, a national pledge, a flag song, and the national anthem sometimes every day!

I think the weirdness only comes from Western Europeans, because I imagine displays of patriotism is common and popular in other countries around the world.

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Level 81
Jul 25, 2017
It's certainly worth pointing out, vehemently or not. Doing so is not pedantic.
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Level 83
Mar 22, 2017
The whole "allegiance to the flag" thing is honestly the strangest thing about American culture (and it's a bit creepy too).
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Level 58
May 17, 2017
And we see you are from England where eating spotted dick and big saucy bangers is acceptable. Yeah, that's not creepy?? I think it is fair to say every culture has something that foreigners view as "creepy", but most adhere to indoctrinating their peoples with some type of nationalism - God Save the Queen!!.
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Level 54
Jun 30, 2017
Just the names of it are creepy (unless you're a 12 year old, then the names are hilarious). Otherwise, its just sponge cake with custard or sausages.

Hot dogs, on the other hand...another disgusting American invention. ;)

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Level 69
Sep 30, 2020
Semi-forced exacerbated nationalism seems a little more creepy - and dangerous - than questionable food. That being said, English food, when cooked properly, is often delicious. I'm French and I don't mind saying that.
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Level 53
Dec 28, 2022
yes the pledge is creepy but i think boiling everything without seasoning is even more disturbing /s
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Level 65
Jun 30, 2017
Arguing over strange cultures between America and Britain? That's pure "12 year old" behaviour.
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Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
Haha come on now - rightfully criticising forcing children to pledge allegiance to a republic and a religious figure every day and labelling this as "12 year olds" squabbling!!

America - this is creepy (and nothing to do with sausages??? the comments here are weird)

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Level 47
Jul 23, 2017
It was just something implemented to encourage a patriotic spirit within the American Youth during the Cold War. Whether or not if it's effective nowadays could be up for debate ;P.
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Level 66
Jul 24, 2017
The Pledge of Allegiance has been around longer than that. When the State of West Virginia required all students to recite it in 1940, expelling students who refused to do so and prosecuting their parents, a number of Jehovah's Witnesses, who considered this to be a violation of their faith, because they viewed saluting the flag as worship of an image, sued the State. Their case made it up to the Supreme Court, where Justice Jackson, perhaps the finest writer to ever be named to the Court, upheld their challenge, writing "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." Two justices dissented.
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Level 64
Jul 22, 2017
When pledging allegiance to the flag, the flag is a tangible representation of the US.

It is a rallying point.

Patriots see it that way, as do flag burners. Whether the object of praise or scorn, it is the nation that is the object, with the flag being a means of expressing that emotion.

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Level 70
Jul 22, 2017
Thank you, I'm glad someone made this point. We are pledging our allegiance to "the Republic for which [the Flag of the United States of America] stands - one nation..." The flag is a symbol and is seen as such by supporters of the U.S. as well as by dissenters.
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Level 74
Jul 22, 2017
Exactly.
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Level 35
Jul 22, 2017
Clap clap for me,I'm American and I got five wrong
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Level 70
Jul 22, 2017
Nobody in the United States is "forced" to recite this pledge. We are not now, nor have we ever been a police state, despite what some radicals would wish for you to believe. You can bet that if you blatantly and publicly REFUSE to recite the Pledge, there will be some suspicious glances cast in your direction, but it is fundamentally against the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution to require ANY recitation of ANY declaration of allegiance by citizens or immigrants of ANY age. The ONLY exceptions are for immigrants becoming naturalized citizens, who must recite an altogether different OATH of allegiance, and military personnel, who recite a similar oath upon enlistment or commission into the American armed services. Please, please take great care in how you describe American rituals, regardless of how unappealing you may find them. The dissemination of misinformation from all parties really needs to stop.
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Level 84
Jul 24, 2017
Yaaay, an intelligent comment!
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Level 69
Sep 30, 2020
Whether it's forced (as you seem to admit it can be, under some circumstances), or just very strongly suggested, it's weird.
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Level 88
Dec 28, 2022
Your first sentence doesn't match my experience growing up. I attended both public and private schools at different times in my education. In both types of school, at least until high school, kids sometimes got in trouble if they did not recite the pledge. Usually they just got chastised by the teacher. Sometimes there were actual punishments though, like going to the principal's office or detention. It definitely depended on the teacher and class size. I'm sure this has changed a lot since my time at school, so maybe you're just younger and that behavior went away by the time your school days started.
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Level 78
Dec 28, 2022
Well, there was, for instance, a state law in Florida requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge that was only overturned in 2006. And whether it's legal or not, there are many examples of schools and teachers requiring it of students anyway, some of which led to lawsuits.

And regardless of whether it's legally required or not, the fact that it's done so frequently and with so much social pressure to comply is indeed creepy, and I'm saying that as a born and raised American citizen.

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Level 84
Dec 28, 2022
Nothing says land of the free like forced patriotism!
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Level 91
Jul 22, 2017
I always hated standing up and saying this pledge when I was in school, because there's really no point. Thankfully I didn't go to a school where people would probably have been offended if I didn't stand up.
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Level 37
Jul 23, 2017
Got 17 from guessing, never heard of this before. I'm English, and we had to recite the Lord's Prayer every morning, even though my school was not Christian
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Level 41
Jul 24, 2017
Non-american and it took me 35 seconds to get the whole thing....I have absolutely no idea how or why I know it though.
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Level 47
Jul 24, 2017
There is one word that the majority of the people forgot about in the past election. That was Republic. We are not a democracy. We are a Democratic Republic.
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Level 67
Jul 25, 2017
Actually, in the United States, it is referred to as a republican democracy. The difference may only be semantic (although certainly not if you ask a lawyer), but the noun is "democracy."
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Level 44
Jul 26, 2017
You have that backwards. The United States is a Democratic Republic. Thus the electoral college, and allocation of Senators based on state boundaries and not population, as well as voting bodies making the decisions in place of mob rule. Pure Democracy was one of the greatest fears of the founding fathers as it inevitably results in the majority subjugating the minority.
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Level 47
Feb 22, 2019
The latest thing is for the alt-right to rearrange the order to "Republican democracy". LOL. Also a favorite of trolls.
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Level 49
Jun 16, 2020
dwsmt4....very well said. We are clearly a democratic Republic. May God help us if we ever become a democracy.

I encourage you to read Plato's Republic and the analogy within that Socrates uses of a ship captain trying to steer a ship.

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Level 51
May 18, 2021
So is ammo55 trying to say that the U.S. is an authoritarian dictatorship?
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Level 69
Sep 30, 2020
Saying the US is a Republic and not a democracy is like saying milk isn't a beverage, it's white.
+1
Level 72
Jul 23, 2024
Would that be a White beverage or a Beverage white?
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Level 69
Sep 30, 2020
To be clear: a Republic is a form of state, a democracy is a type of government. Britain isn't a Republic, but it's a democracy. Eswatini is neither. France, Germany, and countless others are both.
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Level 12
Jul 24, 2017
I got 18 xD ngl, I'm quite proud of that considering I'm fromt the UK
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Level 67
Jul 25, 2017
Does anyone know how uniformly children are still asked to do this in grade school? I know we had to do it everyday when I was in school, but it's been a while. In retrospect, it does seem an odd to ask of young children...
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Level 61
Jul 26, 2017
They still ask us to recite the pledge every single day in school, and they also did in when I was in elementary and middle school. However, I rarely stand up and recite it, and I have never encountered any negative consequences for this.
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Level 47
May 4, 2018
Some people frown upon it, but that's really it.
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Level 90
Aug 4, 2018
Whatever happened to the straight armed Hitler salute kids used to have to give the flag when reciting this?
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Level 47
Feb 22, 2019
It was too on the nose
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Level 78
Dec 28, 2022
The Bellamy salute? It long predated the Nazis, but of course went out of fashion in the US around the time of World War II. It was officially replaced with the "hand over the heart" in the Flag Code in 1942.
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Level 65
Aug 13, 2019
Now tell me making kids recite something like this before school everyday isn't absurd and borderline militaristic/communist. I'm American and almost throw up in my mouth reading this.
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Level 62
May 6, 2021
Uh... Think about it, it's forcing kids to state their loyalty to the country like they're gonna betray them or something...
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Level 70
Dec 28, 2022
It's super needy, insecure toxic relationship behavior. So is the national anthem at sporting events outside of something like the Olympics or World Cup.
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Level 80
Oct 25, 2024
Spot on.
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Level 67
Feb 26, 2020
The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson comes to mind.

“I pledge allegiance to the frog of the United States of America and to the wee public for witches hands one Asian, in the vestibule with little tea and just rice for all.”

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Level 78
Dec 28, 2022
Oh man, now THAT'S a book I haven't thought about for a few decades.
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Level 51
Jun 25, 2020
100%
+4
Level 69
Sep 30, 2020
Yikes. I'm always very uncomfortable with this kind of strongly suggested state-sponsored "patriotism", especially when children are targeted. Yikes yikes yikes.
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Level 32
Nov 5, 2020
Hey.
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Level 80
Feb 18, 2021
I only missed 'Republic' and 'indivisible'. Not bad for a Malaysian living in China who's never been to the States!
+1
Level 52
Apr 18, 2021
Good thing I said the Pledge every day in elementary school
+1
Level 67
Jan 29, 2022
Have never heard it, got 20 with guessing. Good enough
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Level 68
Mar 27, 2022
They should really take out the "under God". I mean it wasn't even in the original version and was added in later with the creator of the original protesting the change.
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Level 82
Jun 22, 2022
I just remember this one super smart kid in my 6th grade class who didnt want to stand and recite and the teacher FLIPPED OUT on him lol. To me the pledge is like the national anthem, a bunch of words that don't actually reflect what America really is - a country that has never really been equal for ALL.
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Level 60
Sep 13, 2022
Thanks to my school for making me recite this EVERY SINGLE morning.
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Level 61
Nov 21, 2022
For what it's worth, we had this every Wednesday morning when I was in elementary school (primary school,) and if I recall correctly it was starting in the third grade. Our teacher told us explicitly that if we didn't want to stand up and recite the pledge, we didn't have to. By the fifth grade, more than half of the students just sat down and remained silent as just a few recited it with gusto each week.

This was in the 1990s in California, the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Level 72
Dec 28, 2022
Said this sh*t everyday in school until I decided to think for myself (probably 3rd grade), but still thought it was "individual", not "indivisible". Got it eventually though

Makes a lot more sense I guess but still cringe 🤮🤮

+1
Level 68
Dec 28, 2022
I got 'the', 'i' and 'to', pretty good for a Brazillian
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Level 32
Dec 28, 2022
I spent the entire time trying to figure out how to spell "alleigance"
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Level 59
Dec 28, 2022
and you still spelled it wrong
+3
Level 68
Dec 28, 2022
I just read the quiz title for the spelling
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Level 68
Dec 28, 2022
Got 24, not bad for a non-American. I think I knew parts from films, and also just guessed common words in the English language.
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Level 19
Dec 29, 2022
being in 6th grade makes it easy
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Level 67
Dec 30, 2022
I'd never heard the words of this pledge before (despite it being "very famous"!!) but I somehow got 61%.

Now I feel icky because the words are pretty scary when you think about them...

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Level 49
Dec 30, 2022
I learned the Pledge of Allegiance by setting it to the tune of "Old MacDonald"
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Level 61
Jul 14, 2023
I think this quiz would work a lot better with a yellow-box, so that allegiance doesn't give all and that people who try to do it in order are not messed up.
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Level 66
May 20, 2024
I've been saying "for liberty and justice for all" instead of "with liberty and justice for all" my whole life
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Level 56
Jun 3, 2024
same lol
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Level 56
Jun 3, 2024
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Level 83
Jun 27, 2024
Still remembered it from elementary school.
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Level 58
Nov 25, 2024
Ditto. And I was in the US elementary school for less than a year. It really gets burned into your brain.