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Thursday, March 03, 2005

I am not commonly confused! Or a confused commoner! Or a confuser of commoners! Or a common confuser!

I found this Commonly Confused Words test on sisu's blog, and of course I couldn't resist because, geekily enough, I'm a big fan of dictionaries and grammar books and vocabulary and such.

Check out my results - beat THAT, suckers!

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 66% Expert!

You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score. Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

Test statistics:

Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:

  • 100% had lower Beginner scores.
  • 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
  • 100% had lower Advanced scores.
  • 100% had lower Expert scores.

Boo-yah! I think I would have done better on the expert section, but it was the last section - questions 31-40 - and I was trying to hurry and finish, so I didn't think about them much.

Take it yourself and see if you're as brilliant as me. Ha.

The Commonly Confused Words Test
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=14457200288064322170

Mia, let me know how you do. Yeah, like you're not going to take it - riiiiiight. If you don't beat me, I'll post our rankle/heckle/hackle conversation. That was so wonderfully nerdy. Oh, and Mia, one of the questions was the age-old "blah blah blah verb so-and-so and I" or "blah blah blah verb so-and-so and me" question. Clay Aiken used to screw that one up ("I would totally win in a fight between Ruben and I" or "Except on certain scary message boards, there is no relationship between Ryan Seacrest and I") and it made Mia and me (see? See how easy that is?) want to kill him and make it look like an accident. That is all.