Named the most difficult word in the “Total Dictation”

The word “childhood” became the most difficult in the “Total Dictation”

The word “childhood” has become the most difficult word in “Total Dictation”, according to philologists who checked the texts in Novosibirsk.

According to experts, the participants in the dictation made at least nine different mistakes in the word “childhood”. Also unlucky words such as “badger”, “grouse” and “ant”.

“The palm this year is for two words. This is the word “cardinally”, which people stubbornly write as “coordinately” … The second “favorite” word is the word “from childhood”. Such a folk, colloquial, colloquial, understandable, but we identified nine spellings, ”said Galina Mandrikova, head of the checkpoint at the Novosibirsk NSTU.

In addition, the inspectors named various options offered by the participants of the Total Dictation.

“Firstly, it was a separate spelling. Someone wrote “from childhood”, “from childhood”. There was even a variant “from zmalstvo”,” listed Marina Shpilman, head of the Novosibirsk City Expert Commission.

In addition, philologists said, participants often made mistakes in such words as “outside”, “in vain” and “locomotive”. Also, mistakes were made in the proper name of Dersu Uzala, although it was displayed on the screen.