Not if they don't require you to spell it correctly. Think of jeopardy, the people give the answers out loud, no spelling required. It's a knowledge quiz. you can make it a spelling quiz if you want. but most people are here for the knowledge part. very few of us are here for spelling tests
But this one does. I just thought of Jeopardy (which I've been on!) but, like you say that's oral, and this is written, and here for the point you gotta spell it rite for the point.
It was on the New Zealand series, and I don't think they ever announced episode numbers for them. All I remember is the final answer, which was "the art of bell-ringing"; I had no idea and in a despairing long-shot I wrote "What is donging" which brought the house down. Luckily all 3 of us got it wrong, and because I bet the least, I won. I got through the next episode as well, but the third night I was knocked out. Anyway, now I know what campanology is, and always will.
OMG! When I was younger, I used to compete in spelling bees. My word was "campanology" and I misspelled it. But from then on, I have never forgotten its spelling or meaning. I guess we really do learn from our mistakes lol
Jerry928, is spelling "right" rite...or is that a New Zealand thing?
Also, so many of the tests on here allow for spelling variations, so no, this site and specifically this test is not a spelling test unless that is a requirement in the instructions.
Nah, rite was just showing how horrific spelling things wrongly can look and feel. This is quiz is fine expecting you to know both the state, and its correct spelling, to earn you the point. A plurality of quizzers have managed to do that that for every question, so I hope you've become one of them.
Well, as this comment chain is (or rather was) on the topic of misspellings and Jeopardy, how long until someone brings up the 'Emanciptation Proclamation'?
Dan has taken mercy on some of you for some of these answers, and Massichusits, Michagon, Minnnnasoda and Misisipi are all now accepted. The correct-spelling version of this quiz is now here.
I tend to write massachutes like massa (=a huge amount or mass in my language) and chutes as in parachutes, but that is the wrong way to spell. Though it seems stuck in my mind haha.
I used to spell it like "Massachussetts", so now I remember it like this:
"So the 'z' sound in the middle of Massachusetts must be due to a double-s, but it isn't. The other double-consonants are there and don't make a 'z' sound."
I might say it differently... but Massachusetts doesn't have a "z" sound anywhere. But "chuss" would rhyme with bus... so it shouldn't have the "s" twice there anyway. Massachusetts seems logical.
That is probably because you practiced trying to spell it a lot. I know how to spell it now, but it took me awhile. I think Massachusetts is the hardest state in the US to spell. That and Pennsylvania probably.
Not true at all. Massachusetts is relatively easy to spell (or at least for me), just remember 2 s's and 2 t's and pretty much you'll eventually get your fingers used to typing it easily.
Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virgina all refer to themselves as commonwealths; however, this legally means nothing and as far as the federal government is concerned they are states just like the other 46.
Lol, three points for seven out of eight. Full house would get me five points. Four points is......impossible. One of the qwerks of the percentages points allocation.
Also, so many of the tests on here allow for spelling variations, so no, this site and specifically this test is not a spelling test unless that is a requirement in the instructions.
...Providing you're from Massachusetts.
"So the 'z' sound in the middle of Massachusetts must be due to a double-s, but it isn't. The other double-consonants are there and don't make a 'z' sound."
god save fifty nifty
I live in Missouri. *face palm*
Which is weird because I live right next to the Mississippi River.
GO MINNESOTA!!!!