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Plurals (fun quiz)

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Grannyknot Mon 16-Feb-15 12:10:22

I got plurality excellence smile Just saying!

www.playbuzz.com/toddbv10/can-you-identify-the-plural-of-these-tough-words

mrshat Thu 19-Feb-15 16:44:15

Excellence A+ for me too! We must be a very well educated lot!

MamaCaz Thu 19-Feb-15 16:35:55

I did a domestic job in a residential outdoor activities centre for a couple of years, on top of my normal job. One week, the teachers accompanying that week's primary school group divided their children into different teams, each named after an animal, and they wrote the names of the teams and their members on the whiteboard. Every day when I went in, I just couldn't stop myself from slyly changing "deers" to "deer". I'm not sure if they ever noticed or not, but it had always changed back to deers by the next morning.

NfkDumpling Wed 18-Feb-15 06:42:22

Plurality excellence! Amazing considering my appalling spelling abilities.

Marmight Wed 18-Feb-15 03:30:30

Plurality excellence too

KatyK Tue 17-Feb-15 16:02:25

Plurality excellence here too. Not sure why I dithered on moose though!

Ana Mon 16-Feb-15 20:27:30

I deliberately answered all the questions wrongly, and this was what I got

"Uh oh! You were probably the rebel of your English class, weren’t you? Though you answered a few of these plurals correctly, you just didn’t get enough correct to get our coveted Plurality Excellence title – and frankly, that’s okay!"

I did not answer 'a few of these plurals correctly'. I answered all of them incorrectly! Misleading or what?

loopylou Mon 16-Feb-15 20:20:39

A+! Excellence at something at last grin

Grannyknot Mon 16-Feb-15 20:07:34

Hehe I did the quiz again and purposely made loads of errors. This is what I got:

"WOW, fantastic job! From Oases to Criteria to Nuclei, you really know your Plurals! You only missed a couple and they are missed by 96% of people that take this quiz. Plurals are some of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language, but not for you!"

Clearly only A+ results will be recorded publicly.

Well it did say "fun quiz" ... smile

Wheniwasyourage Mon 16-Feb-15 19:11:35

A+ too. What a relief - I can continue to be a dyed-in-the-wool pedant!

Greyduster Mon 16-Feb-15 19:04:46

A+!

Ana Mon 16-Feb-15 18:59:43

It's OK Ariadne, I knew what you meant...I think! Might try it again giving all wrong answers and see what they say about me.

Ariadne Mon 16-Feb-15 18:55:57

Oh, I am sorry! Didn't mean it to sound like that, but if you get lots wrong on the quizzes, you still come out smelling of violets. blush

Mishap Mon 16-Feb-15 18:18:38

A+ - not really difficult!

Lilygran Mon 16-Feb-15 18:17:46

Plurality excellence! Must admit I guessed 'moose'. They're sort of deer, aren't they?

Ana Mon 16-Feb-15 18:16:38

Oh well, that's us told! grin

tanith Mon 16-Feb-15 18:16:10

confused

Ariadne Mon 16-Feb-15 18:13:33

Oh, that has been on Facebook so much recently. Very simple, isn't it?

Jane10 Mon 16-Feb-15 17:42:47

Woo hop? It's hoo! Damned mobile phone!

Jane10 Mon 16-Feb-15 17:41:47

Woo hop! Glad to find I'm excellent at something!

rosequartz Mon 16-Feb-15 15:34:24

I got as far as 'ox' this time, then the plurals were all typed on top of each other hmm

rosequartz Mon 16-Feb-15 15:29:59

It froze my pc at the first one!

soontobe Mon 16-Feb-15 14:23:00

It said plurality master excellent.
It said I only missed a couple and they are missed by 96% of people taking the quiz.

So I am not so sure that it is rigged now.

soontobe Mon 16-Feb-15 14:18:55

I will have a go putting in some wrong answers pompa, and report back.

ninathenana Mon 16-Feb-15 14:09:51

A+ for me too. Though I confess to a couple of educated guesses.

Katek Mon 16-Feb-15 12:37:22

Aah! I did it last night in FB so you're prob right Ana and they've changed it.