In the spririt of healthy one-upmanship and competitiveness...

[PrettyCandles]

...try this.

Got 91% first time

[proud]

or possibly [ponce]

Come on pedants, where are you?

(Slap me, stripeymama, I got 100% [that's a smug emoticon])

Ner ner ner

[sulk]

100% first time!

[ponce]
[useless skill]

75%.

Shockingly shite 41%

OMG I am not even going to tell you how I did

It was better than haychee though

I did however get to £1,000,000 on the Sky Interactive game 'Who wants to be a millionaire' earlier this evening....(all celebrity trivia however )

I nearly didnt say what i got, i was that embarressed!

Languages are serioulsy not my chosen subject!

75%. Pah.

Anyway, some of them are wrong - volcano, explore, and possibly carnival, are Latin in origin. So there. Harrumph.

41% which was pretty good as they were almost all guesses!

Latin in origin, but brought into the English language directly from Spanish. [pontificates]

100% for me. [smug]

83%. But that's only 2 wrong really...

83% also, not bad as I dont have o level english!

Sorry, should read don't.

91%
It looks like the quiz was generated with Hot Potatoes? (programme for making quizzes available here if you want to try for yourself!

91% at quiz
(Almost 100% complete guesswork)

83% - I mistook Scandinavian for Old English and vice versa!

66%

I got 75% too and to think I was going to do Linguistics and etymology at university.

100% here too