uh-SID-you-uhs: It's kind of like that thing where you really pay attention to detail.The vocab rounds included being able to understand in context the following words: abrogate, beaucoup, calumny, eccentric, inscrutable, manifold, oblique, phlebotomy, rongeur, sybaritic, trenchant, and vicissitude. Each speller also was assigned two unique words (here and here) as part of the vocab quiz, and you can see how they did.
KLAIR-voy-uns: It's kind of like that thing where you already knew you had spelled this correctly.
ek-oh-TURE-iz-uhm: It's kind of like that thing where you take three planes to fly to Belize, but you let your towels air-dry instead of let the hotel maids replace them daily, and on the way back start looking in the Skymall magazine to see if there's a thing about buying carbon offset credits.
FAHR-suh-kuhl: It's kind of like The Birdcage.
LORE-uhs: It's kind of like a cute monkey.
muh-JELL-uhn: It's like that guy who kept sailing West without having a Garmin GPS.
meh-tuh-TAHR-suhl: It's that thing, where, if you're a football player, it can break.
pro-FUHN-duh-tee: Something you can't find on this blog.
ree-tehn-OO-toe: It's kind of like that thing where the conductor slows down the tempo.
sar-GAH-so: It's kinda of like seaweed, or that book they made into a movie that I didn't read or see.
tam-buh-REE-toe: It's kind of like a Panamanian dance.
vwah-LAH! When they reveal the answer.
** Yep. 28 was the cutoff -- in other words, no more than two errors, plus the speller had to be perfect on the two unique words.
They sure made us wait for Vanya and Sriram, didn't they?
ReplyDeleteA little bit. I'll open the pool at 8pm, I think, and tentatively I'm thinking the rule will be no more than one 4th-or-5th-yr eligible.
ReplyDeleteHow many point was the test out of? I thought it was out of 36, but that would allow for 8 errors, which can't be right. Were unique vocabulary and spelling words each worth three points like they were last year?
ReplyDeleteHere's the Rules; I think I had it right above.
ReplyDeleteMagellan? I didn't recall that they used proper nouns.
ReplyDeleteIt must be short for "am I gellin'?"
ReplyDeleteNo, wait, that was the sentence for the word.
I have my eye on Jae to do big things one of these years.
ReplyDeleteBaie dankie! (just practicing my Afrikaans ...)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a pretty good rule for the contest, otherwise whoever types in "Vanya and Sriram" first gets a massive advantage over the field
ReplyDeleteWe always have restrictions like this when there's a lot of long-time veterans competing on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I wanted to say that the definition of ecotourism made me guffaw heartily.
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