Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Distraction of the day

How many of the 100 most common words in the English language can you guess in five minutes?

I got 46 of them. Care to give it a try?

via Kris, who beat me with a 52.

P.S. Don't read the comments until after you take the quiz, in case people leave some hints.

7 comments:

KcM said...

An even 50 here.

eileen said...

Apparently English relies heavily on prepositions, pronouns, and helping verbs. Nouns? Not so much.

Anonymous said...

40

Anonymous said...

44. when I saw 'number' i read it as 'numb-er'. Really? People say their more numb than others a lot? Oh, never mind.

To Be Announced said...

49 and I'm totally frustrated by it! Shouldn't a third grade teacher at least get over half???

J.R. said...

44. man, i feel sort of stupid now.

Anonymous said...

41. Take that Ryan!