For me, it starts getting tricky around #16, but I have a feeling Western PA's Joe Levri had no problem with it.
Round two has begun, with all kids competiting in order of home state, and you can follow it live online. Victoria Shih is, apparently, not Jewish, and it's not going well for the children from the Land of Lincoln.
edited to add: Round two is complete. From the very-in-the-news-last-year "catafalque" to a kid born four years after the fall of the Iron Curtain missing "perestroika" to an abundance of food words ("cappelletti", "vichyssoise", "sorrel", "andouille", "jicama" and a zillion others), we have much to discuss.
Round two words that I think most of us could have spelled in our sleep, and will haunt the kids who had to face "trichotillomania" instead?
- ahn-WEE -- how I feel when there's nothing good stored on my TiVo.
- AHRM-uh-stiss -- the end of a war; day on which Paul Simon says the Philharmonic will play
- sur-OH-suss -- when your liver's messed up
- SILL-uh and kuh-RIB-diss -- those two places in that myth you don't want to be.
- ses-kwee-sen-TENN-ee-uhl -- stuff that happened 150 years ago
- ZITE-guyst -- thing that Nick Denton is searching for
- TEHMP-ay -- hippie food
- ruh-SID-uh-viz-um: because otherwise, you'll do it again
- pa-AY-yuh: George Costanza's mom's favorite dish
Take over in the comments.
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