Spelling test

One of my frustrations has been having to read my students' papers that are full of misspelled words. Daily Writing Tips has come up with a wonderful online spelling test we can take. Before offering it to you, I wanted to be sure I could spell. For the record? I made 100% on the spelling test!

Now it's your turn: DWT spelling test. When you finish, come back here and tell us your score.

Here are some words that may cause problems:

accept ~ except
loose ~ lose ~ loss
whether ~ weather
by ~ buy ~ bye
wreck ~ wreak
here ~ hear
to ~ two ~ too
for ~ four ~ fore
elicit ~ illicit
peace ~ piece
do ~ dew ~ due
know ~ now ~ no
knew ~ new
then ~ than
creek ~ creak
discussed ~ disgust
write ~ right ~ rite
cent ~ sent ~ scent
wear ~ where ~ were
there ~ their ~ they're
arc ~ ark
whose ~ who's
close ~ clothes
bare ~ bear
cite ~ sight ~ site
chilly ~ Chile ~ chili
affect ~ effect
aisle ~ I'll ~ ile
bored ~ board
advice ~ advise
decent ~ descent ~ dissent
choose ~ chose ~ choice
write ~ right ~ rite
bald ~ bawled ~ balled
holy ~ wholly ~ holey
alter ~ altar
here ~ hear
break ~ brake
lightning ~ lightening
meat ~ mete ~ meet
allowed ~ aloud
its ~ it's
of ~ off

One problem I haven't seen anyone else discuss is the word "of" misused like this:

would of ... instead of ... would've (would have)
could of ... instead of ... could've (could have)
should of ... instead of ... should've (should have)
must of ... instead of ... must've (must have)

Have you seen or heard (or used) any of these?

That's a mute point.
Don't take him for granite.
For all intensive purposes.
Bob wire fences.

But sometimes misusing a word can be fun, like in the bumper sticker that says, "Visualise whirled peas" ... or the poster shown above. Oh, you want the corrected sentences? Okay.

That's a moot point.
Don't take him for granted.
For all intents and purposes.
Barbed wire fences.

Wikipedia says, "Barbed wire [is] also known as barb wire."
These are called eggcorns:

a tough road to hoe (a tough row to hoe)
antidotal evidence (anecdotal evidence)
bread and breakfast (bed and breakfast)
fast majority (vast majority)
flaw in the ointment (fly in the ointment)
hone in (home in)
internally grateful (eternally grateful)
old timers disease (Alzheimers Disease)
on the spurt of the moment (on the spur of the moment)
outer body experience (out of body experience)
put the cat before the horse (put the cart before the horse)
throws of passion (throes of passion)
windshield factor (wind chill factor)

Click the link to learn about eggcorns.