Americans are worse at spelling than Britons, with more than half unable to spell "embarrassed", "liaison" and "millennium"。
美國人在拼寫單詞方面不如英國人,超過一半的美國人不會拼“embarrassed”、“liaison”和“millennium”。
Despite the popularity of school spelling bee competitions, adults in the US fared poorly in a survey comparing how English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic deal with commonly misspelt words。
盡管拼字比賽在美國學校十分流行,但一項比較大西洋兩岸說英語人群的調(diào)查顯示,在拼寫容易拼錯的單詞方面,美國成年人表現(xiàn)得相當糟糕。
Sixty-two per cent of Americans got "embarrassed" wrong, against 54 per cent of Britons who struggled with the word in a survey last year。
調(diào)查顯示,62%的美國人將“embarrassed”拼錯,而去年的一項調(diào)查顯示,英國有54%的人不會拼寫該詞。