5/28/09

The National Spelling Bee.

Several words spelled by the top 7 in this year's bee.
(these kids are not older than 13! crazy.)

huisache
neufchatel
cretonne
amarevole
becquerel
caerphilly
palatschinken (the kid i was rooting for got this wrong)
ecossaise
fackeltanz
jacqueminot
schizaffin
wisent
diacoele
reredos (GO TIM!!!)

Championship Words:
antonomasia
bouquiniste
oriflamme
guayabera
isagoge
sophrosyne
menhir
phoresy
maecenas (no..........)
laodicean

Congrats Kavya Shivashankar!
(I wanted Tim to win)

These kids are nuts.

2 comments:

Vaughan Ling said...

I was watching too! at my aunts house. That one girl was crying cuz she lost then the other girl was crying cuz she won. intense

Lauren Rossi said...

It was... SO INTENSE!!!

Loved every second of it!!!