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06/10/2008

Truble speling?

Research commissioned by the Spelling Society has revealed that British adults aren’t too good at spelling. 54% spelt “embarrassed” incorrectly, 46% couldn’t spell “liaison” and 43% had trouble spelling “millennium”. 1000 people were asked to spell 10 words, and every word was misspelled by someone, with the younger generation less confident than their older peers. The Society is campaigning for a simplification of spelling, saying that we are “still using 16th-century spelling for a 21st-century language”. Thank God for spell check…although even that didn’t work for Lee from the Apprentice.

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