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SO YOU THINK YOU CAN SPELL?
Killer Quizzes for the Incurably Competitive
and Overly Confident |
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paperback (274 pages), published by Perigee Books, a member
of Penguin Group (USA) |
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by David L. Grambs and Ellen S.
Levine |
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200 Tests and
Quizzes – 1,500 words to spell
(Along With Informative
Features on the English Language, Hosting Your Own
Spelling Bee, and More)
For Spellers of
All Ages |
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Of
2,500 adults surveyed by WhiteSmoke, 40 percent could
not spell questionnaire and 38 percent
accommodate. Yet one third
declared their spelling to be "excellent."
Is an overreliance on spell-check shrinking the
orthographic center of your brain?
Don't be a passive, floundering speller. Get
engaged, get hooked. Get yourself a copy of So
You Think You Can Spell?
Use the book to "bee" by yourself:
--to test how good a speller you are
--to become a better speller
--to get in shape for that local adult spelling bee --
or host your own bee |
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ABOUT THE BOOK |
PUT YOURSELF TO THE
TEST |
So You Think You Can
Spell? -- is it remedial, pedagogical, or academic? No
way!
It's not a discussion of the many pitfalls and rules of
spelling, not another compendium of commonly misspelled
words. It is rather a pocket-sized paperback offering
real spelling action.
Crammed with quizzes (with words both common and
uncommon) to test or best you, it's designed to appeal
both to the privately curious and self-improving speller
and to the more venturesome participant in adult spelling
bees now flourishing across the United States.
MORE... |
Take the
Back-cover Quiz: 1.
a. herculian b. herculeian c. herculaean
d. herculean
2. a. passamentary
b. passementerie c. passimenterie d.
passimentery
3. a. strycknine
b. strichnine c. strychnine d. strichnyne
4. a. tynitis
b. tinnitus c. tinitus d. tinitis
5. a. bonnehommie
b. bonhommie c. bonhomie d. bonnehomie
MORE...
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Featured in the New York Times |
BUY |
"Spell Check," an adapted excerpt from
So You Think You Can Spell?, appeared in the
Sunday "Education Life"
section of the New York Times November 1,
2009. The quiz includes more than 125 questions selected
from the book.
Read the article. |
So You Think
You Can Spell? can be purchased through all major bookstores
and online at
Amazon.com,
Barnes & Noble, and from the publisher,
Perigee, a member of Penguin Group (USA).
The book is available in
paperback and as an e-book. |
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