Check your spelling against Webster's Dictionary

I have been reading ‘Mother Tongue’ by Bill Bryson.
The book appeared in my other post about Books Educators will LIKE to read. Interestingly the Qwiki for Webster’s Dictionary appeared in my inbox.
Noah Webster was quick to claim credit for creating words.


But spelling is very tricky. Mr Bryson runs a test with his readers to see if they can spot the spelling mistakes, check his list of words below, how many can you spot? No cheating. Leave a comment and I’ll post the answers in a week.


Which of the following words are mispelled?

• supercede
• conceed
• procede
• idiosyncracy
• concensus
• accomodate
• impressario
• rhythym
• opthalmologist
• diptheria
• anamoly
• afficianado
• caesarian
• grafitti

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