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Is that the world’s thinnest tablet he was checking the spelling on?
This had me laughing!
#1 A lot of the contestants use the back of their card to write the letters. It helps them see the word.
He should have spelled – H*I*L*L*A*R*Y C*L*I*N*T*O*N
That kid actually won the spelling bee for the 4th time AFTER his sister had won it 2 or 3 times==but I forget the details. All three last contenders looked of Indian descent to me and all the words they were given were “un-American.”
He won on guerdon-something that is earned or gained.
The word was of Hindi origin. If it had been a black kid would they give him a word in ebonics?
Neumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
Could you use that in a sentence, please.
Then there’s always George Bush trying to pronounce “shiite”.
#6 – You do and you’ll clean it up! 🙂
#7 – Could you use that in a sentence? I have to take a shitte. Origin please? Tidy bowl.
That kid was hilarious all night.
Using non-common foreign words to spell out in English drastically increases the amount of words. I doubt many people in India even know what a numnuh is. I like the idea of making the contest multi-cultural, but damn some languages just don’t make sense when spelled out in English. Numnuh is used in Europe to describe the piece of cloth under a saddle. In the USA it is called a skirt.
#7, There’s a silent “P” at the beginning of Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
#12 – Good catch.
pneumono ultra micro scopic silico volcano coniosis
It is a lung infection caused by the inhalation of small particles such as volcano ash.
And now spell Uranus.
now this is the DU i know and love
Oh Dvorak, you’ve done it again … this WAS one of the funniest things I’ve seen recently. It looked like the poor kid didn’t want to acknowledge that he’d ever even heard the word “numbnuts” let alone have to spell it! His unease and subsequent relief was palpable. ROFL Thank You
Who wants to take a wager that you will never see the word “niggard” in one of these bees?
Ebonics… “niggard”
There sure are some numbnuts in this thread!
These kind of ‘competition’ are an embarassment to America. Don’t they realize that these things circulate over the web and make us looks like idiots?
And who said Spelling Bee contestants don’t have a sense of humor. Absolutely hilarious!
Earlier in the contest a girl, given a different word, asked, “Could you use that in a song, please?” Her request really brought the crowd to her. The moderator said, “No, you really don’t want that.”