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Can you spot the spelling error that Spell Check missed?
In the following sentence, Word Spell Check missed one "spelling" error and incorrectly flagged another word as misspelled. Can you spot both of Spell Check's errors?
After just five years of a peripatetic lifestyle, I was amazed and dismayed to discover my old neighbourhood had descended into a vial slime-pit of drunks, degenerates and dens of iniquity.
4 Answers
- FrankLv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
neighbourhood is a British spelling.
Vile is the correct word and not vial.
Props to Alex for the fast answer!
- mayedoLv 45 years ago
Laurence F. is crammed with some thing unsightly. The suffix -ise is spelled incorrect in BRITAIN! As a suffix, it became into borrowed from Greek -iz-. The Greek suffix is spelled with "z", so people basically CORRECTED the British blunders. And American English contrasts with BRITISH English, no longer "English". English became into no longer "a artifical venture", yet is an instantaneous descendant of Low German dialects of the 6th century. the place became into he while this became into being taught at school? probable out on the playground smoking cigarettes.
- Anonymous9 years ago
"vial" needs to be vile
neighbourhood is also commonly spelled neighborhood
*Thanks haha being a grammar Nazi has its benefits.*
