Finally, a test to see if you're allowed to post here.

[moopdaloop]

here

If you score fewer than 19 points, kindly shut the door on your way out.

20 - the accommodation one was pure luck genius

ha ha ha ha, 14 VERY , back to school it is,

[sulks]

20!

But I am an English teacher. You'd be worried for your kids if I got fewer than that, wouldn't you?!

20! But one (Metaphor) was a pure guess!

20, and yes, hyphen is to join long-lost but I think that sentence could have both, either or neither the hyphen and exclamation mark in personally. The spellings are all typing test favourites.

14 but I don't care

20

19. I still don't dare post in here though.

16 and very pleased with self.

19 - accommodation did it... oddly enough i can spell it normally

19

OMFG I am just the shittiest (shitiest????) speller in the world ever, and put apostrophes in all over the place when I get excited or anxious....and I got 19.

Oh I am so happy. I can be a pedant.

Don't worry, I wont. I am frightened of this place.

20 here too , but have to admit to being slightly unsure about the metaphor question.

17

I only got the metaphor one because it wasn't any of the others [brazen]

20 !

woo hoo - I got them all right

And I didn't have a cup of coffee first

oh I saw that on the beeb website yday!

I got 20/20 [smug].

There is a maths one next week - shall we come back next week and see if we are still so clever?

20/20

I'm proud, but worried too. I don't see myself as a pedant. My grammar is too hit and miss for a start. Also, I want to say I'm not anal enough, but I think we all know that's a lie.

On the bright side - does this mean that I am allowed to start a thread in the Corner? I've been wanted to offload my pain for ages (people using the wrong words!)

20 for me. By chance a bit, because I struggle with double letters.

The metaphor/simile thing is stupid - it's a similie if you say 'is like' 'is x as'. "The cat is black like the night" is a simile. So is "The cat is as black as the night." But "The cat's colour is night" is a metaphor.

oh and on the the hyphen thing - it's not a matter of choice as a couple of people have suggested.

A "long lost brother" is a tall brother who is missing.

A "long-lost brother" is a brother who has been missing for a long time.

So it would be actually incorrect not to use a hyphen as the sentence would have a different meaning.

Whereas the exclamation mark is optional - you could choose to use one but it's not essential.

Agree with CD - 'ostentatious' does not mean pretentious.

Nor does 'taciturn' mean quiet. It means you don't say a lot. You could be taciturn and noisy. I often am

19! dreading the maths quiz

17 before i slam the door, it was the first 3 that got me, the rest were easy. i love spelling, i therefore cannot be a pedant i realise..
poo.
actually i didnt want to