Any flutherite word sleuths watching the spelling bee?

Asked by mcbealer (10232

) May 30th, 2009 from iPhone

OK I’m really supposed to be doing yardwork right now, promised the dogs an afternoon walk, and tonight I was supposed to catch up on some sleep with a nap.

Yet I am glued to the tube (ESPN) rooting for all these young bright minds, and getting major chills as they advance.

The finals air on ABC tonight BTW.

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ooh
spelling bee
sorry no
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cyn (6918

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Heh, sorry to burst your bubble, but they’re re-airing it from the other night. The finals were a couple of days ago. Kavya Shavishankar won.

Ivan (13494

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Just finished watching it, congratulations to Kavya!!

You can tell how special this was for her, and how hard she studied.

@Ivan, I’m glad I didn’t see your post earlier, LOL

mcbealer (10232

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I get too worked up watching them. It brings up my own feelings of stagefright when I was one of them.

YARNLADY (46715

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I watched some of it. I felt so bad for the boy that misspelled “kalium”

casheroo (18116

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I watched it and found it scary. Where did some of those words come from? The girl who got “Anasazi” received a free pass for one round.

OTOH, there was that little Einstein who knew the word in Greek for parrot so was able to spell the disease (which I do not dare spell here) spread by parrots.

Edit: psittacosis

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