Friday, May 30, 2008

I SAY IT EVERY YEAR BUT HERE IT IS AGAIN: The Jamaican is-  WAIT!  She's not down!  Sade Dunbar is NOT DOWN!  She lives to spell another round!

Here come the supercute ESPN montaged Behind the Speller segments.  Make it stop.  Make it stop.  I mean, I agree that 5 year old Vanya Shivashankar is freaking adorable.  We all do.  But she is not in the Bee.  She is stealing her big sister Kavya's thunder!  Thunder Stealer!  

Back to the spelling...

12:11 am: "sporangiophore", "tholobate", "illative"...the hard words show up to fight and the spellers stomp all over them, kicking hard word booty with grace and ease.   

Here comes a Behind the Speller on Matthew Evans.  He carries around 30,000 words in a suitcase whenever he travels!  He's special!  He's a spelling demi-god!  Grr...get to the spelling.

By popular demand, a word on Cat Cojorcaru:  She's lanky and tense.  Folds her forehead into pieces as she thinks.  She bites her lip, looks disturbed by the whole process as she repeats the words over and over.  She twirls her fingers around one another, working them, writing with them, picking at them.  Her hair is shiny like she eats all the right foods and knows a good conditioner when she sees one.   And she breathes a great sigh of relief each time her turn is done.  She's delightful and geeky and just one or two years away from morphing from freak to great beauty.

12:32 pm:  "Schnecke" used in a sentence by Jacques Bailly:  "A fight nearly broke out between two customers over the last schnecke in the bakery."    It got a laugh from the audience and from Zachary Zagorski who had to spell it.  And he did.  What is a schnecke?  A cinnamon bun made of yeast leavened dough that is rolled up like a jelly roll, cut into crosswise slices and baked cut side down.    I want one.  I want one now.  It sounds so good...

We're now down to 28 spellers if I'm doing my math correctly.  

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