TODAY, THE BARBECUE; TOMORROW, THE WORDS: A few more articles on this year's competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which starts with the written round tomorrow:
- Third-grader Shaheer Iman of Baltimore, whose favorite word isn't "narco" but rather pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
- Northern Ohio's Vishnu Nastala is concerned about Hawaiian words.
- Ben Rydecki, of DeKalb, IL, is looking forward to his first plane ride.
- Patrizzia Fox-Beaudet of Redding, CA, is not messing around, including words such as scheherazadian, sprachgefühl, Götterdämmerung, and weltanschauung in her prep.
- Japan's Haruku Masuda reads 300 English language books a year, so she's ready.
- The Mattsassin's sister is back.
Adam, did you type or copy/paste that word?
ReplyDeleteCopy/paste, of course, but it's not that hard in its component parts.
ReplyDeleteThat's the great thing about Bee-blogging (or hosting Pub Quizzes) -- I don't actually have to know all the answers; I can look them up.<span> </span>
Can someone point me to the complete list of competitors?
ReplyDeleteBut what do you do when sources differ on such critical issues as the name of the country borded by India, Bangladesh, China, Loas, and Thailand?
ReplyDeletehttp://public.spellingbee.com/public/spellers/speller_roster
ReplyDeleteGo to hell, Marcotte.
ReplyDeleteNot a competitor article, but I liked the one in the NYT by a former speller.
ReplyDelete( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/opinion/the-specter-of-the-spelling-bee.html )
This young competitor is SIX. SIX YEARS OLD.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/05/28/national/a152723D26.DTL&tsp=1