Spelling Quiz - Words beginning with ae... (Answers)
"Are we allowed to do that?" she said aloud. How good is your spelling of words beginning at ae? Find out in this KS3 quiz.
The school doctor asked "Have you ever had trouble with appendicitis?" Fred replied "Only when I've tried to spell it". BA DUM TSS!
Do you ever wonder about the number of "silent" letters in English? Or why words are not pronounced as you might think they ought to be? Explanations for the difficulties people face when trying to spell English words usually come down to one of two reasons: either the word has been part of the English language for a very long time and its pronunciation has changed over the centuries, or the word is borrowed from another language. The suffix, -itis, is a Latin form of a Greek suffix. Its use in English is usually in medical terminology used to describe disease, for instance "appendicitis", "vasculitis" or "arthritis".
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Spelling
"Aesthetic", a word derived from the Greek language, is not especially easy to spell!
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Remember not to confuse the verb, "to affect", with the noun, "effect"
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"Agile" is pronounced differently in various dialects of English
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The final -e becomes an i when the -ty suffix is added
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"Agree" + -ment
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Did you know that agri- comes from "ager", the Latin word for "field"?
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The o in the middle of "alcohol" is the tricky part of the word
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Because the "k" sound in English can be spelled in so many different ways, this letter might be the hardest part of the spelling to remember
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Double l!
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Sometimes when people aren't paying close attention to their writing, they use the homonym "aloud" by mistake
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