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They Got a Vowel Right! Trivia Quiz

You have to wonder if people are aware of spellcheckers, or do they just assume a few random vowels or consonants in the right place will do? These are some real misspellings I ran across on the Internet, it shouldn't be too hard to figure them out.

A multiple-choice quiz by markswood. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
markswood

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
371,373

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Easy

Avg Score
9 / 10

Plays
1464

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Question 1 of 10

1. A sign in a store on a particular display says "Holloween Clearance". What should it have said? Hint

Halloween Clearance

Halloween Clerance

Holloween Clerance

It's perfectly correct!

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Question 2 of 10

2. A caption on a TV news report next to a picture of a rather earnest looking man they were talking to on the telephone stated he was a Pubic Defender. What did they actually mean? Hint

Publick Defender

Public Defendor

Pubic Defendor

Public Defender

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Question 3 of 10

3. A sign outside a Funeral Home and Memorial Park said they were offering "Creamations" from $750. What on earth did they mean? Hint

Cream Teas

Cremations

Creamasions

Nothing wrong with that!

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Question 4 of 10

4. An optician's (optometrist) advert in a local paper asked readers to "bring us your site test and we'll do the rest!" Which word is misspelled here? Hint

site

rest

test

bring

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Question 5 of 10

5. Seen on the back of a truck: "If you didn't buy from **** you lost both money and quailty". What did they mean to write instead of quailty? Hint

Quality

Qualify

Quail Tea

Qualitey

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Question 6 of 10

6. A sign outside a room in a British university said, "Quite Please, Exams in Progress". What word should it have been instead of the one used? Hint

Prowgress

Exxams

Pleas

Quiet

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Question 7 of 10

7. On a TV news banner describing the scene "Israel-Gaza Boarder", I wonder what they meant? Hint

Border

Tenants

Flat/apartment sharing

Nothing wrong with that!

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Question 8 of 10

8. Seen on a fence outside a house: "Dog will Bight". What will he really do? Hint

Bait

Bay

Byte

Bite

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Question 9 of 10

9. Seen on a fence outside a house: "Private Property, No Praking". What could it be, I wonder? Hint

Barking

Braking

Parking

Praying

10. One of my favourites spelling errors was seen on a sign outside a school to explain the day of closure in January for a holiday in honor of "Dr Martian Luther King". What letter has been erroneously added? Hint

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. A sign in a store on a particular display says "Holloween Clearance". What should it have said?

Answer: Halloween Clearance

Most likely this was an innocent typo made in a hurry by a harassed store worker without proofreading it. It's probably safe to say we've all done that.

Of course it should be Hallowe'en as it is a contraction of All Hallows' Eve (or Evening) that precedes All Hallows' Day (my birthday), but Halloween is considered a correct contemporary spelling.

2. A caption on a TV news report next to a picture of a rather earnest looking man they were talking to on the telephone stated he was a Pubic Defender. What did they actually mean?

Answer: Public Defender

Pubic defender was probably not the career title he had envisioned when at college, but someone might need one! A Public Defender is a lawyer who will represent persons who cannot afford their own lawyer. In the UK this is called Legal Aid.

3. A sign outside a Funeral Home and Memorial Park said they were offering "Creamations" from $750. What on earth did they mean?

Answer: Cremations

For $750 I think I'd like a cream tea for the mourners. Paying for the printing and then actually displaying this sign without spotting the error beggars belief.
Cremation is mandatory for Hindus, Sikhs and Jains but forbidden in Islam and Orthodox Judaism.

4. An optician's (optometrist) advert in a local paper asked readers to "bring us your site test and we'll do the rest!" Which word is misspelled here?

Answer: site

Maybe they need to take their own sight tests! Strangely, they also make glasses on site, and they used the word correctly there.
The chart an optician uses is called a Snellen chart after its Dutch inventor in 1862.

5. Seen on the back of a truck: "If you didn't buy from **** you lost both money and quailty". What did they mean to write instead of quailty?

Answer: Quality

Mmmm Quail Tea ... sorry I digress! That sort of advertising makes you want to rush down to that store immediately and ... laugh at them!
Quality is obviously important to many businesses, so there are quality systems in place that are recognised internationally by certain standards. You may be familiar with ISO 9000 as many organisations are proud to display this logo, which means they adhere to a quality standard.

6. A sign outside a room in a British university said, "Quite Please, Exams in Progress". What word should it have been instead of the one used?

Answer: Quiet

Maybe it was an exam on anagrams, or the people that adjudicate the exams aren't university graduates or they were just testing the student body.
The Chinese were the first to use exams nationwide. Called the Imperial Examination, it was implemented in 605AD!

7. On a TV news banner describing the scene "Israel-Gaza Boarder", I wonder what they meant?

Answer: Border

Not the most peaceful place to take up lodgings! I'm dreaming of a world without boarders.
Did you know Gaza is a pene-exclave of Palestine? That means it's separate from the rest of Palestine, but touches its own territorial waters; another example of that is Gibraltar.

8. Seen on a fence outside a house: "Dog will Bight". What will he really do?

Answer: Bite

It is unusual to misspell a word in a more complicated way. Coincidentally, a synonym for bight is bay which some dogs can also do. It comes from the Old English "byht" meaning bay or bend.

9. Seen on a fence outside a house: "Private Property, No Praking". What could it be, I wonder?

Answer: Parking

The world's first parking meter came into use in 1935 in Oklahoma City, but a patent was filed in 1928. You don't even need to carry loose change anymore for parking, as you can pay at many meters with cards or by cell phone.

Answer: a

Dr Martian - that's the best, up there with Alien Lincoln. The Martin Luther King holiday became an official holiday for the first time in the USA in January 1986. There is also a Martin Luther King Park in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Source: Author markswood

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