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Show Spellers Stumble Over 'Leisure' in 8th Grade PHOENIX, ARIZ. If you spell "leisure" "leesure" or spell "acquaintance" "ac-quaintance" with an "ence" ending you've got a lot of company among Arizona eighth-grade students. Mora than a third of them couldn't spell "acquaintance," "leisure" or "consequence" but they probably found solace in the fact their parents par-ents couldn't spell them either. Other- results of the department of education's annual "spelling bee" found eighth-graders getting mixed up on "immense," "sufficient" and "decision." Fifth-graders really had a tough one, too. Fifty-nine per cent could not spell "separate." Fourth-grade pupils did almost as well as their older brothers and sisters on "separate" "sep-arate" only 60 per cent missed the word in the fourth grade. More than 30 per cent of seventh-grade seventh-grade students stumbled over these words: Bureau, mortgage, appearance, appear-ance, organisation and entertain. Sixth-graders managed 10 spell "coarse" every way but the right ' way and also had a hard time with . "satisfy," "description" and "examine." |