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Anonymous left a link to the Australian Spelling Test, which was normed across 10,000 children in Southern Australia in 2004. I've just given it to C., who turns 15 at the end of the summer:
70 words
59 correct
scoring:
53 correct: above 15.5 yrs
Yaaaaayyy!
Words missed:
familiar
permanent
sufficient
cemetery
definite
apparatus
subterranean
miscellaneous
guarantee
embarrassing
conscientious
more fun with Dick and Jane:
me: "Apparatus."
C.: "a - p - p - e - r - a - t - u - s"
me: "Wrong. It's a - p - p - a - r - a - t - u - s. With an e."
C.: So? It's a verb.
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Does the "age" they calculate work past high school Because I peaked on spelling a decade ago...
do other people notice this, too?
That's interesting.
I don't think I've peaked -- but I'm not sure I'd know.
I've only recently figured out that exaggerate has two g's.
And of course there was the flokati revelation.
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