American Quick Spell-Check

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. American Usage. -Which of these compounds does not use hyphens correctly? one-eyed monster black-eye bean black-kidney bean black-eyed bean

2. American Usage.- In which of these combinations should you NOT use a hyphen? A father-son conversation The Lords-Temporal Anglo-Saxon literature a secretary-treasurer

3. American usage tends to have -ize in a number of words which in British have -ise. Yet some verbs that are or can be written with -ise in BE do not get -ize in AE. Which of these four is such a case? to excise to civilise to penalise to apologise

4. American Usage. - Most derivations from verbs ending in -sist, -xist take an -ence rather than an -ance ending. Which of these is an exception? persistence consistence subsistence resistence

5. American Usage. - It's not always easy to know when a verb takes -ible rather than -able. How many of these four take -ible: laudable; corruptable; exhaustable; deductable ? none two three one

6. American Usage. - How many of these words are correctly spelled: reparable; preferrable; admissable; detectible? none two one three

7. American Usage. - Which of these is the only correct spelling? to analyze to analyse to analise to analize

8. American Usage. - Which of these orthographies is completely "impossible" in American English orthography? liquefy rarefy putrefy purefy

9. American Usage. - Which of these is an incorrect spelling? to amortize to chastize to pulverize to organize

10. American Usage. - Words like priest, field, achieve illustrate the rule that 'When sounded as a long e, we write i before e'. But there is a general exception or secondary rule. We write ei after ___________ ? b c p d