If you are getting bored at home — or even if you aren’t — here is a little word usage quiz for you.

Things have gotten pretty serious over the past week. I thought you might appreciate a little humor.

Read about the differences in spelling, punctuation, and grammar between American and British English in Part 2 of this series.

It’s all the same language, but it’s different – American versus British English. And the British did have it first.

Thank you to everyone who wrote me to tell me about their favorite books and the first books they remember reading. Here is what you said: