Casting a Spell
Congratulations to Marissa Shoji, my student, locker neighbor, and runner back in Cincinnati, for her run in this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee.
She not only dominated the local and regional competitions … she also made it onto ESPN, where she got past the first five rounds and finished 16th in the entire nation!
Check out Marissa’s words in the national semifinals:
- Multiple Choice Test:
1. icicle
2. hawthorn
3. bizarre
4. colossus
5. tarantula
6. ciao
7. malocclusion
8. succorance
9. demur
10. solmizate
11. mien
12. Ananias
13. takt
14. halobiont
15. peirastic
16. retablo
17. Tetrazzini
18. haricot
19. syssarcosis
20. vernier
21. quale
22. noesis
23. scytale
24. ylem
25. Bewusstseinslage- particular
- inertia
- circumbendibus
- butyraldehyde
- beurre
Wow … it just hurts my head to look at those. The word that got her, “beurre”, is french for “butter” (I guess they ran out of English words). All I can say is … absolute brilliance.
Congratulations, Marissa!
June 8th, 2007 at 3:44 pm EST
Try to spell appetizing……..:wink:
June 8th, 2007 at 11:32 pm EST
thats pretty cool! I totolly cant spill anething
June 8th, 2007 at 11:34 pm EST
“where there is a will, there is a won’t”
Hmm… on my blog last week, the quote was “where this is a Will, there is a way” with my name being “will” (despite the fact you know me as billy, lol)
I just thought that you quote is kind of ironic. If I meet “won’t” I will be sure to introduce myself to him : )