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  • We want to know the people that need to refund their parents the money they wasted on school fees.

  • Djibouti or Dijbouti? This quiz will help you know if you can actually spell or you’re just trying.

    Find out:

  • You read some English words and want to throw some hands. Who was behind the spelling of those words? What was the thought process? Why did they borrow the word from another language? So many questions. 

    1. Diarrhoea 

    Really though, how does a word spelt as ‘diarrhoea’ make sense as dai·uh·ree·uh? Who coined this word? What was the reason?

    2. Queue 

    Someone just lined up a bunch of unnecessary letters behind Q. Why? I can only imagine the low self-esteem that the letters ‘ueue’ feel. 

    3. Croissant

    Croissant woke up one day and decided to be kwa·son. The ‘r’ and the ‘t’ are in the spelling for decoration. Don’t get me started on how all the vowels sound different.

    4. Lingerie 

    Lingerie has the cutest spelling for a word that ends up being pronounced as laundry. 

    5. Charcuterie

    I personally pronounce this word as ‘coochie fairy’ and I have no desire to learn the actual pronunciation. It’s a borrowed word, so I’m not surprised that the spelling and pronunciation are unnecessarily hard. 

    6. Silhouette 

    Maybe I’m the one that doesn’t know how to spell sha because I suffered during the silhouette challenge last year. 

    7. Rhythm

    The people who borrowed rhythm from the Greeks forgot to borrow the second ‘y’ and now all of us are living in the bondage of ‘rhythm’. There’s definitely an easier way of spelling the word out there, we’ve just not found it yet. 

  • How many words can you get from “LETTERS”? Test your knowledge by taking this quiz:

    “LETTERS” can be rearranged into over 30 different English words. Can you name 15?

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  • You come across them daily, but can you spell these car brands correctly if you were randomly asked to?

    Well, test yourself. Take this quiz.

    QUIZ: Can You Identify These Popular Cars By Their Logos?

    Let’s see if you are good with logos as you are with spellings (or not).

  • Imagine if autocorrect didn’t exist and you had to defend your English degree by spelling literature terms… Let’s see how well you would do by taking this quiz.

    FYI, this is not the time to befriend Google. Answer with your chest.

    QUIZ: How Well Do You Remember The Classic Novel, “Things Fall Apart”?

    Do you remember as much as you think you do about TFA? Quiz yourself here.

  • There are a few English words that Nigerians are so obsessed with using, that they now feel like ours. This quiz is here to see how well you can spell 15 of the most popular unofficially Nigerian words.

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  • You might know all 54 African countries, but can you accurately spell them all? Well, this quiz is here to test that. We’ve gathered 17 of the most commonly misspelt countries to see just how well you’ll do.

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  • Who else didn’t know Nigeria had actual spelling bee competitions? Well, while falling down the YouTube rabbit hole, I found out we have a bunch of them. So, I decided to make a quiz out of 15 words some of the kids were asked to spell. How do you think you’ll do?

    Let us see: