A fun book about spelling! This is not another basic spelling improvement book but a challenging collection of more than 100 tests guaranteed to have even the most smugly confident spellers running for their dictionaries. Test yourself -- or your friends -- with multiple choice tests, ³Say It and Spell It² tests that rely on pronunciation guides, and ³-able or -ible² and ³-ance or -ence² tests for the most commonly made mistakes. Finally, there¹s a run of 50 special-interest tests ranging from America Cities to botany, and opera to sports. Filled with fascinating spelling lore, such as Ben Franklin¹s efforts to reform our spelling system, and a brief history of why English is so complicated.