Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary

Or Why Can't Anybody Spell

Vivian Cook

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9780743289993
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Writing & Presentation Skills

"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson
Weird or wierd? Necessary or neccessary? Recomend or recommend? English spelling is fiendish, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it.
Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary is at once a celebration of spelling and a solace to anyone who has ever struggled with the arcane rules of the English language. As amusing as he is informative, Vivian Cook thrills the reader with more than a hundred entries -- from photographs of hilariously misspelled signs to quizzes best taken in private to schadenfreude-rich examples of spelling errors of literary greats -- that will tickle the inner spelling geek in every reader.
It all adds up to a gem of a book that takes a wry look at the hodgepodge evolution of spelling and the eccentric way it actually works.
Difficult Words Spelling Test
Circle whichever one is right.
1. dessicate desiccate desicate
2. ecstasy exstacy ecstacy
3. adress adres address
4. dumbel dumbbell dumbell
5. accomodate accommodate acommodate
6. necesary neccesary necessary
7. liaison liaision liason
8. pronounciation pronounceation pronunciation
9. ocurence occurrence occurence
10. embarass embaras embarrass
11. brocolli broccolli broccoli
12. refering referring refferring
13. cemetery semetary cemetary

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Introduction
• Flatts and Sharpes
• Gourm Kit with HKPS:
• Noah Webster
• The Skirt with the Shirt
• Litterary Sustinence
• From Cwen to Queen
• Krusty’s Kustom Kolors
• Test
• Possitive Enthousiasm
• The Rite Nite Lite
• A Job for Job
• Kurupt Playaz
• From “Hwy” to “Why”
• De Doctah’s Ambeetions
• Open 8:30 Til 11:00
• Hyh-phen-at-ion
• Discrete Handycap Facilities
• Lil’ Spyder
• Silent Letters
• Spelling Games
• George Bernard Shaw
• A Thoro Program
• Fnomnl 4en Junk
• K’yards and Sich Things
• Genes for Jeans
• Lo-Cost Glamo-Nit
• Serious and Frivolous Spelling Reform
• The “I” Before “E” Rule
• OMG ur Cooooool
• A 2 B in a Klassy Kab
• Has American Spelling Improved?
• From Addilou to Vsetin
• The International Phonetic Alphabet
• Rockin’ ’N’ Rollin’
• From ere to Year
• Fifteen-Year-Olds and Spelling
• Orthographic Regularities Test
• The Letters of the Alphabet
• Norrif and Xiryc
• Broccoli and Lettuce
• Test
• NO3ODY’s $$$$s
• Ye Olde Tuck Shoppe
• Hints On Pronunciation for Foreigners
• Direction of Writing
• Thy Thigh
• Snack-Tastic Steak-O-Rama
• Supadupa Killah Mobb
• Tea-Time or Teatime or Tea Time?
• Test
• Alpha Bravo Charlie
• Apocalipsis Pronto
• Why are American and British Styles of Spelling Different?
• Cheese Patter with Asides
• Test
• High Klass Shops
• The Ghastly Khaki Waltz
• Traffic Signs from Several Countries
• Welcome Compliments
• Le er and h ng
• Shakespeare and Spelling
• Spelling Games
• Banannas for Brekfast
• The Eihgteen-Million-Dollar Supprise
• Rock ’N’ Roll ’N this ’N that
• Rock ’N’ Roll ’N this ’N that
• Mark Twain
• Lol and Kiss in the Chat Room
• Rules for Doubling Consonants
• Grobal Bussiness
• Unique New York
• Making English Better
• Yertle the Turtle
• Guranteed Appartments
• Can Computers Learn English Spelling?
• History Test
• Spelling Games
• TheSpaceBetweentheWords
• Wargs and Heechee
• Just 4 Kids
• Test
• Mysterious Public Notices from Different Countries
• Independant Stationary
• Ugotta do it Magicleigh
• An “I” for an “Eye”
• ’Arf a Mo Guv
• Shear Delight in Hair Dooz
• Early American Alphabet Books
• Annuity/Duity
• Bad Dogz in da Hood
• Rules for Silent “E”
• Scores on a Difficult Words Spelling Test
• Danger: Spelling Chequer at Work
• Flea Eze and Vioxx
• Fuji Apples and Arugula
• Stockbrocking Emporiam
• No Way Sis and Foney M
• Fryerish Poker Mom
• Kute Things for Kids
• Dun Laoghaire Siouxie
• Hamlet’s Ghosts
• Competetive and Guranteed
• Elrond and Bombur
• Test
• Modern Typefaces for English
• A Page for U
• Test
• Samuel Johnson
• The Frequency of Letters in American English
• Outlawz and Cute Cait
• Millenium Exstacy
• Greengrocer’s on the Street
• Lord Chesterfield’S Letter to his Son, 19 November 1750
• Spellings ’R’ Us
• Streetz 4 U and Eye: Song Titles
• Difficult Words Spelling Test
• American or British Style of Spelling?
• Old English Spelling
• The E-Cancellation Test
• Orthographic Regularities Test
• Words that are Commonly Misspelled
• Sounds or Letters?
• What’s Wrong With Your Spelling?
• Identify the Language
• Odd Word Out
• Acknowledgments
• Sources of Information