Monday, April 3, 2006

THE ROAD TO WASHINGTON BEGINS: Given last night's festivities, I believe it's time to start this blog's fifth straight year of coverage for the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee (May 31-June 1), and there's no better place to start than with Shonda Rhimes' favorite speller.

Because ladies and gentlemen, at the age of twelve, Samir Patel has earned a slot in his fourth straight Nationals. Among the words he spelled correctly:
  • HUN-dreff: 5250 minutes, as compared to a year
  • kore-nuh-KO-pee-uh: a whole wide mess o'stuff
  • ESS-kuh-tahl-uh-gee: the study of Duncan Black's website
  • uh-FAY-jee-uh: loss of the ability to swallow
  • dee-HISS-uhnse: the process of rupturing, releasing an object's contents.

Patel immediately becomes the odds-on favorite to win this thing, but we've got two months to profile his competition.

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