Spelling Bee
Did anyone catch the Scripps National Spelling Bee tonight? I watched a little of it here and there as well as final five rounds. I tell ya, these kids are smart. Katharine Close of Asbury Park, NJ won after correctly spelling ursprache in the 20th round. She was excited when the word was said because she had seen it before and knew how to spell it. And this was after correctly spelling kundalini, tutoyer and many others. We’re talking about kids aged ten to fourteen!
I still remember two spelling bees that I was in waaay back in the day. In the 5th grade, I think I made it to the final 10 before messing up on nonsense. Yeah, easy word, and I knew it. However, I spelled it too fast and what rolled off the tongue was nonsence.
The other bee that I remember was in the 7th or 8th grade. I didn’t do too well in this one, messing up on accommodate in an early round. Just couldn’t remember which of the letters are doubled. To this day, I don’t think I can spell that right on the first shot.
Do you have any spelling bee memories?
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Jun 1st, 2006 at 23:50:19
In the fourth or fifth grade, I was very much into learning about animals and nature, and the librarian knew that about me. I was like the third or fourth remaining kid in the spelling bee (for grades 4-6, if I remember correctly) and was excited at beating out most of the sixth graders even.
And then the word came: autumn, but what rolled off my tongue didn’t contain a mysteriously silent n.
The librarian commented afterwards that she picked that one figuring I would nail it for sure.
D’oh!
Jun 2nd, 2006 at 07:51:07
Ah, the silent letter got ya. That’s funny that the librarian was on your side, trying to help out. D’oh indeed!
Jun 2nd, 2006 at 12:16:33
Nope, I missed it. I was too busy watching paint dry
Jun 2nd, 2006 at 13:23:53
In fifth grade I won the spelling bee for my entire elementary school. Then I went to some regional competition which was held at NKU. I got out on the word stifle, which of course was on our vocabulary list the following week.