Americans are worse at spelling than Britons, with more than half unable to spell "embarrassed", "liaison" and "millennium"。
美国人在拼写单词方面不如英国人,超过一半的美国人不会拼“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。
尽管拼字比赛在美国学校十分流行,但一项比较大西洋两岸说英语人群的调查显示,在拼写容易拼错的单词方面,美国成年人表现得相当糟糕。
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。
调查显示,62%的美国人将“embarrassed拼错,而去年的一项调查显示,英国有54%的人不会拼写该词。
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