English Spelling Quiz With 20 Words That Are Impossible To Get Right Without Thinking

19/20; I've got a degree in English and spelling words correctly makes me happy, but the word that's effed me up since childhood effed me up here once again: "embarrassed" and its variants XD It's one of the few words I cannot seem to spell correctly no matter what I do XD

Rather embarrassing to get only 'embarrassing' wrong..

Same

I have a little hack in my head from playing a bunch of word games; pronounce the word how its spelled. it'll sound wrong, but it lets you know there's a hidden letter.

That one got me too!

Yeah, same here.

yeah that is the only one that got me. I grew up with British and this was the US variant.

That one got me!

Merriam-Webster lists both, with the one without the additional 'e' being the primary entry.

My partner is dyslexic and wouldn't come close to that - so a solid well done from me!

Elizabeth, you are correct. Nauseated is how someone feels and nauseous is the item causing nausea. Just because people use the words incorrectly doesn't mean we should all just give up and continue looking ignorant and/or stupid. If we followed Ace's disturbing principles, then we should accept that "ur" is the correct spelling of "your" or "you're." We should default to "could of" instead of "could've." Why we would ever use words appropriately when I can do whateva I wont and my family, the Smith's, can become the most smart peeple on the plan't.

No, sorry, but that is not how the words are used. Maybe at some point in time, but you cannot insist that words mean only what they meant twenty, fifty or a hundred years ago. Much as it ma pain you, and me, language evolves. Deal with it.