Discussion
Find the wrongly spelt word. If all four are correctly spelt, choose “All correct”.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Liesure
Liesure is the misspelling. The correct form is leisure, with ei rather than ie. It is one of the standard exceptions to the rule i before e except after c, and the exceptions are worth learning as a group: leisure, seize, weird, foreign, neighbour, height, their, either, neither, protein and caffeine. The other three options are correctly spelt and each is French in origin. Amateur keeps the French -eur ending, and comes from the Latin amare, to love - someone who does a thing for love rather than for payment. Bureau keeps the vowel cluster eau, and gives bureaucracy. Committee doubles three letters - m, t and e - and is to be contrasted with commitment, which has only one t.
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