The year-end holidays are an alternate reality. People dress differently, act differently \u2026 and even talk differently. This time of year has its own vocabulary, and some of these old-fashioned words have eccentric spellings. So here is our holiday spelling quiz. You\u2019ll find the answers directly below.<\/p>\n
1<\/strong>. ___ the night before Christmas.<\/p>\n A) T\u2019was 2<\/strong>. They have a live ___ down at the shopping mall.<\/p>\n A) raindeer 3<\/strong>. It was a festive ___ gathering.<\/p>\n A) yueltide 4<\/strong>. Please! Go easy on the ___.<\/p>\n A) egg nog 5<\/strong>. Our ___ holds nine candles.<\/p>\n A) menorah 6<\/strong>. \u201cSanta Claus\u201d refers to ___.<\/p>\n A) Saint Nicholas 7<\/strong>. In European folklore, ___ is considered magical.<\/p>\n A) misletoe 8<\/strong>. The winter ___ falls on December 22<\/span><\/span> this year.<\/p>\n A) soulstice 9<\/strong>. \u201cO little town of ___.\u201d<\/p>\n A) Bethlahem 10<\/strong>. Stop spinning that ___ and join us for dinner.<\/p>\n A) dradle <\/p>\n ANSWERS<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/strong>: B) \u2019Twas<\/em><\/p>\n 2<\/strong>: B) reindeer<\/em><\/p>\n 3<\/strong>: D) yuletide<\/em><\/p>\n 4<\/strong>: C) eggnog<\/em><\/p>\n 5<\/strong>: A) menorah<\/em><\/p>\n 6<\/strong>: A) Saint Nicholas<\/em><\/p>\n 7<\/strong>: B) mistletoe<\/em><\/p>\n 8<\/strong>: D) solstice<\/em><\/p>\n 9<\/strong>: C) Bethlehem<\/em><\/p>\n 10<\/strong>: D) dreidel<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The year-end holidays are an alternate reality. People dress differently, act differently \u2026 and even talk differently. This time of year has its own vocabulary, and some of these old-fashioned words have eccentric spellings. So here is our holiday spelling quiz. You\u2019ll find the answers directly below. 1. ___ the night before Christmas. A) T\u2019was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostrophes","category-spelling"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nB) \u2019Twas
\nC) \u2019T\u2019was
\nD) Twas<\/p>\n
\nB) reindeer
\nC) raindear
\nD) reindere<\/p>\n
\nB) yuletyde
\nC) yueltied
\nD) yuletide<\/p>\n
\nB) eggnawg
\nC) eggnog
\nD) egg nogg<\/p>\n
\nB) mennorah
\nC) mennora
\nD) menorrah<\/p>\n
\nB) Saint Nichlaus
\nC) Saint Nicalos
\nD) Saint Nichollas<\/p>\n
\nB) mistletoe
\nC) missletoe
\nD) misiltoe<\/p>\n
\nB) sollstise
\nC) solstise
\nD) solstice<\/p>\n
\nB) Bethleham
\nC) Bethlehem
\nD) Bethelhem<\/p>\n
\nB) dreidle
\nC) draydel
\nD) dreidel<\/p>\n