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Posted: **Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:13 pm**

The NYT copy-editing quiz.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... is-17.html

You got 15 out of 15 right after a total of 20 tries. The median number of tries for someone who got the same questions right was 27. 8 percent of other Times readers got the same score. You did better than 92 percent.

Click on the word you think is wrong: if the quiz setter thinks you're wrong it will say "1 try" and you have another go.

Posted: **Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:48 pm**

23 tries for 15 out of 15 right.

Posted: **Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:03 pm**

You got 15 out of 15 right after a total of 15 tries. The median number of tries for someone who got the same questions right was 27.
8 percent of other Times readers got the same score. You did better than 92 percent.

I always wanted to be a copy editor - missed my calling.

Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2019 5:38 pm**

Well, I, for one, am not gonna' touch this.

I speak American -- not that pretentious Queen's English stuff. And I write like I talk.

That damned OED is always trying to trip me up. You know what I'm sayin'?

Chalk me up as 0 tries for 15 deliberate writing faux pas's.

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