Wrong!

Tell your guests that there are three words in the English language which are particularly difficult to spell, and that a person who can spell them correctly can spell almost any word. Ask some individual to spell the word “receive.” He spells it correctly and you compliment him and then ask him to spell “believe.” He does spell it right, but you shake your head and laughingly say, “Wrong”! Say nothing more than that but repeat it several times at his insisting that he spelled “believe” correctly. Usually the next step is, “Well let’s start over again because I know I spelled those words correctly!” If the request is not forthcoming, make the suggestion yourself and start all over with “receive,” and after “believe” again shake your head and look shocked beyond words at the ignorance evidenced, and say “Wrong!”

If you are not fatally injured by this time, suggest again that you start from the beginning, and again after “believe” say “Wrong,” with a shocked look. Eventually your victim will arrive and spell “W-r-o-n-g!”