A test from the grammar Nazi

pattylou

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4246472.stm

I dare you.

(And I'll admit, I got three wrong. I'm embarrassed. Or is that embarassed?)

tomc52

I got 5 wrong, a little trickier than I expected

arildno

I got two wrong (mixed up a metaphor and a simile; besides, I don't know what a hyphen is if it isn't an apostroph)

Monique

2 wrong :party smily:
(never heard of a similie before, and definitely was wrong)

BobG

I missed three. Darnned doubble letter wordds!

big man

I missed one since I didn't know what 'avarice' meant.

matthyaouw

I mixed up metaphor and simile, and got 3 word definitions wrong.

honestrosewater

Accommodate this! 1 wrong - #10. When will the people rise up and switch to phonetic spelling? C'mon, people - we have the power!

pattylou

Yeah, but you would have got simile wrong too if it hadn't been for all the hints here. Admit it. Come on, admit it.

Berislav

Three wrong.

Yeah, I lost a point that way, too.

russ_watters

I got the first six right, then I got bored and quit.

arildno

That's 14 wrong..

cefarix

oh man i got two wrong :(
the spelling of accommodation and one weird one about some sentence part...

hypnagogue

Two wrong. Acomadation, and the one about the long lost brother. (Hey, I think that deserves an exclamation point, but apparently declaring that you've found your long lost brother is on a par with flatly stating "these eggs needs more salt.")

I was disappointed they didn't have the nuclear/nucular one.

And pattylou, technically you got four wrong-- but such technicalities never get past the grammer Nazi.

hypnagogue

Actually, I think russ got the right answer. No wonder everyone's missed at least one so far!

honestrosewater

Me? No way. I know my rhetorical tropes like the back of my hand.

Galileo

2 wrong. I had to make some educated guesses in the beginning and got one wrong. And I made a stupid mistake in the end. I`m still pleased though