All About English Spelling
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This is a quiz to see how much you know about English spelling. Quite hard, but it's not a spelling test.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What is the most common 'digraph' (two letters together in a word) in English spelling?
- A.
Er
- B.
In
- C.
Th
- D.
He
- 2.British or American spelling? Which is the odd one out?
- A.
Woolen
- B.
Skeptic
- C.
Mustache
- D.
Distil
- 3.An English word with 9 letters but only one vowel (a,e,i,o,u).
- 4.A word containing the letters 'pph' pronounced as 'f'.
- 5.Which of the following was not thought to be dyslexic?
- A.
Agatha Christie
- B.
Abraham Lincoln
- C.
Albert Einstein
- D.
Leonardo da Vinci
- 6.Who said "You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi'
- A.
Humphrey Bogart
- B.
David Beckham
- C.
Groucho Marx
- D.
Tom Cruise
- 7.What was the spelling that George Bernard Shaw famously said could spell the word 'fish'?
- 8.According to the NATO spoken alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, etc) how would you spell out 'knowledge'?(write each word in lower case with a space but no commas between them)
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