National Spelling Bee, 2007
emmatheduck is in it. How’s it going, Emma?
Date: May 29, 2007
Categories: Life, The Universe
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Shadowkat
in May 29th, 2007 @ 09:32Oh, how cool! Yes, emma, how’s it going?
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in May 29th, 2007 @ 10:35Here’s the schedule:
Competition Day One: Wednesday, May 30
The Preliminaries (Rounds One and Two):
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDTThe Quarterfinals (Rounds Three and Four):
2:00 to 5:30 p.m. EDTCompetition Day Two: Thursday, May 31
The Semifinals
(Presented by LeapFrog live on ESPN):
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDTThe Championship Finals (Live on ABC):
8:00 to 10:00 p.m. EDT
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 10:41I wish I could be in it! Good luck, emmatheduck!
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kt the gr8
in May 29th, 2007 @ 10:42GOOD LUCK EMMA! I SEND YOU THE GREATEST SPELLING PIE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!
ps:if you win thank your mb buddies!
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Shadowkat
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:124-Well, we didn’t do anything…
Good luck!!! You’d better get to the finals, so we can see you on TV! Lol!
May the bunnies be with you (normally, I wouldn’t wish this fate on a mosquito, but this is not a normal situation, and, for reasons of mere public image, I’m sure the bunnies can make an exception in their nature)!!!
:idea::idea::idea:
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E2MB
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:16Good luck emma!
I remember watching “spellbound” in the theaters. It looks really, REALLY tough.
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:33Drat! I don’t have a TV.
If she makes it to the finals someone will have to record it and put it on youtube so that I can watch it.
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Jadestone
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:39Good luck!! I’d send you all my mad spelling skills, but they’re in the negatives so I’d better not.
If you make it to tv I’ll look out for you!
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E2MB
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:467 – You don’t have access to TV, but you have access to YouTube?
I don’t have access to TV. I can’t even go on Youtube. All I have is MuseFanPage and Google.
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E2MB
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:47If emma wins I will go ballistic.
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Rebecca Lasley (Administrator)
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:47Bee stats:
There are 286 competitors, ranging from age 10 to 15, of which 139 are boys and 147 are girls.
Two of the competitors are in 4th grade, 23 in 5th, 36 in 6th, 88 in 7th, and 137 in 8th.
Schooling background: 192 from public schools, 38 private, 36 home, 14 parochial, 5 charter, and 1 virtual.
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:51Whoa. That’s detailed. What grade is emmatheduck in?
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E2MB
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:5111 – Why more girls?
What is virtual schooling?
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 11:539- We have computers and DSL, but we don’t have cable TV. We can watch movies, but that’s all.
Maybe the GAPAs can put the movie on MB like they did when The Skipper Nancy was in a parade-type thing.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 29th, 2007 @ 12:24The spelling bee is in a hotel a block away from my office. Last year there were protesters outside carrying signs calling for phonetic spelling.
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Lizzie
in May 29th, 2007 @ 12:3713- it’s like an online school; I have a friend who goes to one. They have classes, lectures, etc, but it’s all through a chatroom-type setting.
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E2MB
in May 29th, 2007 @ 13:0615 – Wow. You’re close to it.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 29th, 2007 @ 15:43Arg we don’t get abc (it’s just a lot of static) and we don’t have cable. I hope she wins because then she might be on a station I can watch on our old screen receiving signals from an antenna sitting on top of the tv itself. *checks for spelling errors*
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dark duke of darkness
in May 29th, 2007 @ 16:159-umm thats kinda… authoritarian of your parents, no?
13-its barely more girls. not significantly more.
14-ditto. except cable internet.
and umm. good luck. i saw spellbound too, and it looks pretty scary. especially the Indian kid who had like a thousand people praying for him to win.
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Purple Panda
in May 29th, 2007 @ 16:22We only get about 2 channels…I think PBS and KDKA or something. But I’m definitely watching it on YouTube! And it would be even better if the GAPAs could post it!
Haha…that reminds me! Remember the movie the GAPAs posted of Robert and Rosanne? (a picture attempt gone wrong)
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kt the gr8
in May 29th, 2007 @ 16:45www. youtube .com/watch?v=lhxYoieBpi4
a link to a thing about a competetor for you emma, he has brittle bone disease! the video explains it.
(pretty please gapas, it is educational about a disease and gives emma some competition)
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Beavo the Great
in May 29th, 2007 @ 17:08Good luck with the spelling bee!!!! I almost got to state’s last year but I messed up on umm… I think it was leutenit. I still cant spell it.
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Julieb
in May 29th, 2007 @ 17:4015- Oh, I wish I had seen that…
22-Lieutenant?
Good luck Emma! We’re all rooting for you!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 29th, 2007 @ 17:4620-I found that one time looking through old threads!!!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 29th, 2007 @ 17:4723-You’re right! *sends you off to da spelling bee*
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Donaldo the supercoolio awesome nerd
in May 29th, 2007 @ 17:57GOOD LUCK EMMA!!! I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU!!! I HOPE YOU WIN!!! YOU WILL DO GREAT!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 17:58Lieutenant. Lieutenant. Lieutenant. I’m drilling it into my brain so someday I can win a spelling bee. Lieutenant. Electricity. (A few years ago about five people went out on that one.)
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Beavo the Great
in May 29th, 2007 @ 18:0823-Yeah.
27-You better! I can spell electricity, though.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 29th, 2007 @ 18:12*SENDS THE BIGGEST PIE EVER TO EMMA WHO IS GOING TO WIN YEAYEAYEA YIPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!*
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kt the gr8
in May 29th, 2007 @ 18:15go emma goooooo oemma!
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muselover
in May 29th, 2007 @ 18:15i wish i knew her real name so i could see if she won! i actually tried out for the national geographic bee; only got to the school finals. i hope she wins, though!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 29th, 2007 @ 18:30Her real name IS Emma. I think.
I new someone named Emma before, but that was, um, something like four or five years ago so I have no idea if that Emma even likes Muse.
*SendzanothersuperbigpietosendherzoomingthroughthespellingbeeandwinyayayayayayyayaYAYAYAYAYAYYAAYYAAYAYYYAAYAYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 18:43But wouldn’t we hear her last name if we saw her on TV? *gasps in horror*
Rendezvous. (That’s a rather hard one. It’s easy to forget the z.)
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 29th, 2007 @ 18:53Um, yea, we would.
But then I would know if she’s the same Emma I knew!!! *one chance in twelve billion*
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 19:01Emma is a very popular name.
And if I ever, by some obscure chance, publish The Makepeace War (or anything else) before I am eighteen, you would know my last name. *gasp*
I don’t really worry about stalkers, though.
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emmatheduck
in May 29th, 2007 @ 19:23Wow, a thread about me!
Thank you all who wished me luck, pied me, etc.
Spelling will begin just a little under twelve hours from now. I am nervous. I will try to keep you all posted on how I do, which isn’t likely to be very well (and please don’t tell me that’s not true, because really it is. I could get lucky and make it to TV, but that’s pretty unlikely). And winning is impossible. There are so many kids here who are way, way, way better than me. Samir Patel will probably win. And there’s a five-year-old here who can spell humuhumunukunukuapuaa faster than I can. She not a speller, just a speller’s little sister, but I bet she’ll be like the 2015 champion or some time around then. And I’m really babbling now, aren’t I? So I should stop. I need to get to slepp anyway. I have to be down there like 6:30 tomorrow. Bee week has been really fun so far, running around putting Ws on sno(w) cones and such but as of this evening it’s horrible, I am so nervous, I feel sorry for anyone who actually bothered to read this entire post, most of which is completely pointless but hopefully the PoPoPo will go easy on me since I’m nervous. And if they try to fine me choklit instead of chocolate I will…..aaah i can’t think of a good word. But i will be furious. Anyway. I should stop. I’ll post tomorrow as soon as I can to tell you how I did. bye.
oh and btw, here’s a weird word for you i just learned a few days ago from fellow spellers. bhutatathata. really fun to say over and over. Anyway, I’m really stopping now. This is totally babbling. I’m always like this before spelling bees. and this is by far the biggest bee i’ve ever been in. I’ts the biggest bee ANYONE’s ever been in. and OMG I am so nervous. and this is the end I promise.
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Alice
in May 29th, 2007 @ 19:36Well, good luck! Even if you don’t win, I hope you get very far and have lots of fun!
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Donaldo the supercoolio awesome nerd
in May 29th, 2007 @ 19:52I know you told me not to, but that isn’t true! YOU ARE SO GOING TO BEAT EVERY OTHER SPELLER OUT THERE AND MAKE IT SO FAR, EVEN IF YOU DON’T WIN!!!!
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Der Wachtelschlag
in May 29th, 2007 @ 20:41All right Emma!
YOU GO, GIRL! THE MUSEBLOG IS BEHIND YOU!!!!
I’ll look for the coolest competitor–the one from MUSE. Come on, Emma–WOOT!
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curious and questioning
in May 29th, 2007 @ 22:20Have fun. And don’t expect anything of yourself. That’s worked for me, at least. I wish you the best possible luck in the spelling bee, though. I’m sure you’ll do fine. If you don’t, it’s not important. And at least you got to spend time in Washington.
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emmatheduck
in May 30th, 2007 @ 05:1640-My mom (reading over my shoullder) said that is exactly right. But I don’t but thanks. to everyone. Must go.
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Glassboro
in May 30th, 2007 @ 05:59Good luck. And don’t mess up on easy words. Obvious, but you’ll hate yourself for it. Spelling bees are fun, because you get to listen to other people make silly mistakes. Of course, those mistakes are also painful (how could they be so clueless?!?). Once again, good luck. Goodbye (for now) and thanks for all the- *tries to think of if emmatheduck ever pied everyon* Oh, whatever. Goodbye (for now), and thanks for all the thought.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 30th, 2007 @ 06:59HAhah I’m so excited I read her entire post!
*SENDS TWELVE-HUNDRED TRILLION BILLION TRILLION PIES OF GOOD LUCK TO THE GREATEST SPELLER EVER, EMMA PIES AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!*
*gasp pantpant*
RtH the Excited
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Agrrrfishi(PenDiamond)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 07:37GOOD LUCK EMMATHEDUCK!
:mrgreen:-Agrrrfishi
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Cappy (too lazy right now for the rest!)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 08:11SENDS YOU SO MANY SPELLING PIES!!!!!
I can’t help it! I’m remembering and Ed Edd N Eddy episode where Edd doesn’t win the spelling bee to his friend (Ed) who is considered the lowest of the low point average, like –15000000000 or something like that. Well, anyways he gets really upset because now everyone goes to Ed (the dumb-ish one) for homework help. Eventually they all fail and demand a money return from Eddy (the money crazy one who exploited Ed’s knowledge for cash) and yeah… So Edd (the smart one) sort of gets his revenge without doing anything.GOOD LUCK SO MUCH EMMA!!!!!!! I HOPE YOU TURN OUT LIKE ED!!!!!
I mean, well not at the end but at the end of the bee anyways! (Well, he won by spelling Gravy…)
Anyways VERY GOOD LUCK I WILL BE WATCHING YEAHHHH!!!
(Yes I have up to something like 78 channels. O_o )
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 08:28I tried to stop by the hotel to catch part of the preliminary rounds on the way to work, but it turns out not to be open to the public. There were dozens of people sitting on the floor waiting to go through three metal detectors. It looked like an airport, only slower. Well, this is Washington.
The good news is that the store in the hotel lobby has a big selection of Godiva chocolates (bars and boxes) right beside the door. So if etd needs a pick-me-up between rounds, she knows where to go.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 10:39Update:
I’m pleased to report that Emma correctly spelled her word in round 2 of the oral preliminaries.
I don’t know how she did on the written test, but it looks like a killer. “Peirastic”? “Bewusstseinslage“?! Where do they get these words? For the record, here’s the whole written test, as recorded on the spelling bee’s Web site:
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
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emmatheduck
in May 30th, 2007 @ 10:49ok, most of what Robert said is right, but there’s no such thing as the second oral round of the preliminaries. The preliminaries is just one oral round and the written test. The oral round was pretty easy and almost everyone spelled their words right. Mine was shepherd. And I got 18 on the written test, so 18 plus three points for the oral round gives me a total preliminary score of 21, Which was the cutoff for last year, so I’m really borderline. People seem to be sayng it was harder than last year, so if that’s true I probably qualified for the quarterfinals, but I won’t know for sure for about an hour and a half. waiting to find out is almost as bad as actually being in the bee. I think I probably made it though. but i don’t know. I’ll try to post when I know.
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emmatheduck
in May 30th, 2007 @ 10:51Oh and robert, thanks for coming by, but yeah there’s the stupid security things and I think there’s limited space in the ballroom anyway. And I did see the chocolate, but really it’s probably not a good idea to eat candyish things during a spelling bee. I’ve got lots of carrots though.
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 10:52Yipe. I’m dead. I’ll never get into a spelling bee. What do these words even mean?
Oh. *is grumpy* Of course, the dictionary wouldn’t have them. *mimics* that word can be found on Merriam-Webster unabridged *stops mimicking* Which, naturally, you have to buy.
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:03*sends carrot pie* I hope you make it!
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emmatheduck
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:0450-lol, i hate how the online m-w does that. fortunately I have the CD-rom version though. And it doesn’t really matter if you know what they mean, since you can ask for that if you want to know. in a spelling bee i mean.
And Robert, mom saw what you wrote about trying to get in and said we can give you a wristband if you want to get in tomorrow.
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E2MB
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:15GOOOOOOOOO EMMATHEDUCK!!!! WINWINWIN!!!!
COME ON, EVERYBODY!!! CONGRADULATE HER!!! POST LIKE MAD!!! SHE GOT PAST THE FIRST ROUND!!! YAYAYAYAYAY!!!
POUR OUT THE ENCOURAGEMENT!!! LOTS OF IT!!! BRING IT ALL OUT!!! EMMA, YOU HAVE TONS OF FANS ALL BEHIND YOU!!!!
WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT
okay I’ll stop now
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:24I see the spelling-reform picketers are back this year. A few of their signs:
UPDATE SPELLING – IMPROVE LITERACY RATEENGLISH SPELLING SPELLS TROUBLE
SENSIBLE SPELLING
GOOD ENUF FOR HIM – GOOD ENUF FOR US[With a photo of President Ronald Reagan. Puzzling. Is that how Reagan spelled “enough”?]
LET’S END THE “I” IN “FRIEND”TAKE THE STING OUT OF SPELLING
[With a cartoon picture of a bee — get it?]
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E2MB
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:30Let’s end the “i” in “friend”? What’s that supposed to mean?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:31They think it should be spelled “frend.”
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E2MB
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:3456 – Weird. It would have been more interesting if they had said “Let’s end the ‘r’ in ‘friend’!”
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 11:38Well, I know Melvil Dewey spelled things phonetically, but I didn’t know that about Ronald Reagan. Huh. If a guy’s going to be president he should at least know how to spell enough.
I love spelling. How could anyone not love spelling?Yes, I’m being ignorant and close-minded. But I love to spell.
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emmatheduck
in May 30th, 2007 @ 12:22lol yes, the protesters are funny. I don’t thoink they’re really serious, because they congratulated me for being in the bee and let mom take a picture of me with them. They’re actually amazingly nice for spelling-haters.
but anyway, they just announced, the cutoff was 21, same as last year, and also what i got, so I qualified. So now it’s down to 107 kids I think. And i’m absolutely ecstatic. I’ll post again later today to say if i’m still in for tomorrow. It’s just two more rounds so i could be, but probably not. Still, I now have avaguely realistic chance at TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry about that. I’m excited.
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Jadestone
in May 30th, 2007 @ 13:1054- Oh god. I bet that makes for an interesting view though.
58- Because I’m bad at it, that’s why.
Yay emma!! Violetfire says congrats too!
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 13:36Whee! I wish you luck (again)!
Have fun!
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 13:41The latest: in Round 3, Emma has correctly spelled “recondite.”
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 13:52Recondite, huh? Wonder what it means.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 30th, 2007 @ 13:5562- How do you know???
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Quintessentia
in May 30th, 2007 @ 14:37Good luck, emmatheduck!
When I was in third grade, I won my K-5 school’s spelling bee, which annoyed a lot of adults. I was homeschooled at the time, see, so they had to redo the semifinalists so a person who actually went to the school would win. I was allowed to go to regionals, but I spelled “talon” wrong in the third round because I was scared. Oh well.
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SuperSaiyajin424
in May 30th, 2007 @ 14:389 – how is that even possible?
11 – ahm…virtual?
57 – they are under the impression that the contestants are fiends? ….weird…..
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“Emma is standing on stage, she’s about to say the letter that will win the championship, when suddenly…K-SPLAT!!!!!!!
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Green Qween/Maria Grace Green/Greenspeaker
in May 30th, 2007 @ 14:48GO EMMA!!! I am rooting for you! Good Luck! How does Robert find this stuff out so fast?
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 14:51It’s on the Web.
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 14:5267- He’s a block away from where the bee is taking place.
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 14:52Oh, well I was wrong.
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Green Qween
in May 30th, 2007 @ 15:24Emma passed round four! The word was zwieback. Good job! Does that mean you get to be on TV?
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Kiki the Great
in May 30th, 2007 @ 16:02break a leg, emma!
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Purple Panda
in May 30th, 2007 @ 16:12YAY! Go EMMA!!!!
Congratulations!!
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Alice
in May 30th, 2007 @ 16:26Wow! Good for you, Emma!
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Beavo the Great
in May 30th, 2007 @ 16:58Congratz!! Zwieback? Well, anyway way to go!
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E2MB
in May 30th, 2007 @ 16:5962, 71 – Those are fairly easy words.
GOOOOOOOOO EMMA!!!! WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT GET IN THE TOP 50!!! THE TOP 10!!! THE TOP 3!!!! THE TOP 1!!!! GOOOOOOOO EMMA!!! ALL OF MUSEBLOG IS ROOTING FOR YOU!!! CONGRADULATIONS!!!! YOU GET TO BE ON TV!!! GO GO GO!!! SPELL SPELL SPELL!!! WIN IT WIN IT WIN IT GO GO GO!!! GOOOOOOO EMMA!!!
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Donaldo the supercoolio nerd
in May 30th, 2007 @ 17:46GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EMMA!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE DOING GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE SO GOING TO WIN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EMMMMMMMMMMMMA!!!!!!!!! SENDING YOU BILLIONS OF CONGRATULATION AND GOOD LUCK PIES, PLUS, IF YOU LOSE, DON’T WORRY!!!!!!!!! I AM ALSO SENDING AN ARMY OF HPBs SO YOU CAN ATTACK THE JUDGES IF THEY SAY YOU ARE OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO GO GO GO GO GO!!!!!!!!!
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Julieb
in May 30th, 2007 @ 18:34Great Job Emma! We’re all following you on the web! Just remember, you’ve got all of us behind you! Good luck, I’m sure you’ll do great !
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Julieb
in May 30th, 2007 @ 18:36Wait, is she going to the semifinals? Emma, you’re going to be on ESPN! That’s awesome!
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'Dotty-kay
in May 30th, 2007 @ 18:43Good luck Emma, you’ve already done amazingly! Better than I ever would!
76: Well that’s ironic. It’s “congratulations”.
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violindino
in May 30th, 2007 @ 18:47Yay for Emma!! I wish you lots and lots and lots of good luck!!!!!!!!! You must be really smart to be able to spell all those words, half of which I don’t know the meaning of!!!
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When spelled phonetically (oh, geez, I can’t even spell that-ironic) my post looks like this:Yay fr Ma!! I wish u lots nd lots and lots of gud luk!!!!!!!!!!! U must b relly smrt to b abl to spll all those wrds, half f wich I dnt no the mening f!!!
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If we all spelled like that nobody would know what we were saying and people in other countries would think everyone is not very smart. hehe
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pen,/ta/to'/nikk (adj)
in May 30th, 2007 @ 18:5964 (RtH)- Magic.
Awesome, Emma! Good luck! The Power of the Capitalized Words is with you! Fight! Win!
By the way, according to the almighty dictionary.com,
rec·on·dite /ˈrɛkənˌdaɪt, rɪˈkɒndaɪt/ [rek-uhn-dahyt, ri-kon-dahyt]
–adjective
1. dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
2. beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric: recondite principles.
3. little known; obscure: a recondite fact.So recondite is a recondite word.
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E2MB
in May 30th, 2007 @ 19:1180 – Oh phoo. I know how to spell congratulations. I just wasn’t paying attention.
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 30th, 2007 @ 19:20Yup, she zoomed through round four. *SENDS HUGE PIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Amazing.
*sends spelling snake* Alliteration, and a snake who can help you spell if you get stage fright!!!
Do you like chocolate? *sends some if you do*
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agagabagabag
in May 30th, 2007 @ 20:10GOOOOO EMMA!!!!!!! MUSEBLOG IS ROOTING FOR YOU! HOORAY!!!!!!!! GO, GO, GO!!!!!!!!! JOY OF JOYS! IT’S GREAT TO KNOW SOMEONE AS SMART AS YOU! SEPLL THOS WORS RITE! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 30th, 2007 @ 20:21When are they going to just come out and say she won?!?!?!?
The Impatient HAWK
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'Dotty-kay
in May 30th, 2007 @ 20:2481: I think you’re mixing up phonetic spelling and text messaging lingo. Or the Anti-Vowel Language.
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in May 30th, 2007 @ 20:3086-never.
But yes, I will be on ESPN. And yes, I got easy words, especially in round 4 I knew well under half of them but fortunately i had studied zwieback. I know by now you’re all starting to think i’ve just been overly pessimistic, but seriously i’ve just been really ucky and will probably go out pretty quickl tomorrow. I could even plausibly be the frst one to misspell on TV. Wouldn’t that be fun
but really, i’m just happy I’m here. I don’t even want to win, after hearing about what it’s like. if you win, you get interviewed till past midninght, then get about 4 hours of sleep, if you aren’t too excited to get to sleep, than have an absolutely completely full day of interviews the next day. So I almost definitely won’t even get to the championship finals (the ABC part) and i’m just fine with that. Anyway, I should really get to sleep.
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in May 30th, 2007 @ 21:01zwieback! mein pater and i were very impressed with that one. we looked up the dispatch-sponsored person (dad works there), and she had misspelled something easy that i forget, but she did able instead of ible. but she was like me and didn’t study. ha, i remember my spelling bee days…i basically got to regionals and quit, because all i wanted was the free craig’s cruisers party w/my friend who went to a diff skool.
anyhoo, i’m totally going to figure out when i can watch bits of it and watch Mostly Harmless in effect! you should totally put pwt pwns on your nametag or something
good luck! (for the third or fourth time, but lots of luck is always good :D)
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in May 30th, 2007 @ 21:13YouTube will be a blessing.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 05:3689- -able/-ible gets a lot of people, including me. It can be tricky. An everyday word isn’t necessarily an easy-to-spell one.
Anyway, I probably won’t be posting again until late today, or maybe not even then if I do really well….which is unlikey, but I’ve given up on convincing you all….
also, I’ve been meaning to tell you that there is at least one other muse-reader still in the bee. Her name is Rose, though I don’t remember her peller number. Just thought you might want to know that she reads muse too and there could be others, but Rose is the only one who commented when I was carrying them Muse around on Tuesday.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 09:08Just 59 spellers left in the contest as the semifinals open. Unfortunately, I can’t watch ESPN at work. Is anyone else following the round?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:35hey. we’ve been watching for a while, but we thought it started at ten and for us it actually started at nine. we’ve been watching and waiting to find out if she’s still in but we probably wont know til this round is over. She’s number 14 and there’s a lot of info on the bee website if anyone wants to know what she looks like. can i give a link, GAPAs? thanks. here’s the spelling link… [Sorry! The GAPAs are unusually link-averse this week. –Robert]
and they just said there were 42 spellers left! this has to be a sign!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:37EMMA DIDN’T MAKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:38I think I’m going to cry.
But “gardez” isn’t in the dictionary!!! Wait a minute!!! Something’s fishy.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:38Ooooh…. the site says emma got out on ‘gardez,’ which she spelled ‘guardet.’ Sounds like a hearing error to me, but oh well. YAY EMMA!! You got so far!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:41*Dies* THIS_IS_TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!
What does “gardez’ mean?!?!?!!? ARg this is terrible.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:46According to the official website, Emma has misspelled “gardez” as “guardet.”
NUUUUUUU
Rose, the other Muser, also appears to be out.
Great job making it this far, though, to all Musers! (oh fine, and non-Musers too.)
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:50I assume that “gardez” means “you guard” in French. Apparently it’s also used in English.
Those French are some tricky people, oui? In French words that end with an “ay” sound can spell that sound about seventy-five and a half different ways, so it’s not at all surprising that Emma got confused.
Gardez is apparently also the capital of the Paktia province in Afghanistan, although presumably Emma asked the language of origin and knew to spell so Frenchly.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:51I don’t think you should be expected to spell something right when it isn’t even in the dictionary!!!
My writer/editor mom doesn’t know what it means either.
Emma should sue.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD?!?!??!?!?!?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:53Are you dying GAPAs???
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 10:58But it’s not in the dictionary!!! I thought they could only make you spell things that are in the dictionary!!! *kicks inside of coffin*
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:02I can’t believe this! *spins in grave*
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:02 We love you, Emma! *hugs*
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:12(102) Not every dictionary contains the same selection. The contest uses Webster’s Third New International Dictionary.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:12The Muse curse has struck again. A girl from North Carolina was eliminated when she misspelled Terpsichore, the ancient Greek muse of dance.
And this just in: Samir Patel,
last year’sa former second-place finisher and widely considered this year’s favorite, has just been eliminated on the word “clevis.”It’s been a bloodbath this morning, for sure.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:15Toughtoughtough. Makes me almost happy I don’t have a chance of having to go through all this. *shudder* Very brave of you, emma, very brave!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:15Well that’s too bad . . . But Emma got really, really far! Good job, Emma! I think I would have gone out on Peirastic.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:17There were a lot of French words early in the round. I complained about that to Paul Baker, who put it into perspective in his inimitable fashion:
Maister, tis a question of aucthoritee. Ther is certayne of theese childer as are bicom so perfect in theyre spelyng (as it seemeth theyre Inquisitors) that there is not enough wordes in al Englande, nor in the Collonies neyther, to try them wel or give them anie laboure. Wherefore they must perforce borrow wordes out of Fraunce, or Alamanye, or Spayne, for to make them sweat at yt. Fie! Tis al false, and they had beter learne Chandlerye, or Astrologye, or anie thing of greter worth than Spelyng. Yet it preventeth them descendyng to idlenesse and vice; and wee muste rejoyce in smal mercies.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:17106- I didn’t know they did names.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:24I must have found the wrong site. There is no Emma in the list of spellers.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:38111 – She was eliminated! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:40But what did she place? Does anybody know?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:44113- I would look it up but I got the wrong site. *huffy* And that list had everyone that started out. Number 14 was Christian someone or other.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:47Found her.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:50That was weird. I found it after all. Bizarre. It didn’t say what she placed.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:53109 – Hahaha. Good point. Some kids are downright obsessed with spelling that they look to other languages for new material!
SHEEEE WAAAAAAASSSSS ELLLLIIIIIIMMMMIIINNNNATTTTTTEEDDDD!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
IF SHE HAD WON, SHE COULD HAVE SAID ON NATIONAL TELEVISION HOW COOL MUSEBLOG IS AND THEN THE WHOLE WORLD WOULD KNOW!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!okay I didn’t really expect her to do that.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:54Practically all the comments on the recent comments sidebar are here!
EMMA LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 11:55Maybe that was a little unfair.
SHE WAS PART OF THE 285 THAT WERE ELIMINATED!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:00All right, all right. We’ll bend our rules this once. It’s www. spellingbee. com .
I’m not sure it’s possible to tell where Emma finished numerically. 286 spellers started round 2. By round 5, the number was down to 59 spellers; 26 were eliminated, including Emma. So she’s tied for 27th through 59th place, no?
I hope Emma told Rose about the blog.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:05120 – Who’s Rose?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:09Rose is another Muser whom Emma met at the bee.
Now, if the publishers had been on the ball, they’d have left piles of free Muses lying around for the participants to take. They’d have got a hundred new subscriptions just like that. But I suppose most of the spellers have been too nervous to read anything except dictionaries this week…
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:15122 – Yea.
I like that idea, though. Next year, let’s ask the publishers about it.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:20Wow, congratulations, Emma. You did really really amazingly.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:21122- Have you ever tried reading the dictionary? It’s actually kind of fun.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:25I am so going to try to get into a spelling bee. Not the national one yet, but once I go to school it’ll be a lot easier.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:27124 – Yea. She got soooo far. If she’s one of the top 50 kid spellers in the nation….WOW! She’s got something to be proud of!
GOOOO EMMA!!!!!125 – Usually I read encyclopedias instead. But those don’t help you with spelling nearly as much.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:29126 – There isn’t any sort of spelling bee at my school. And did you see? In the 286 competitors, 36 are homeschooled!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:42(125) Oh, gosh, I love to read dictionaries! I can’t look up one word without looking up fifty. My favorites are the ones that have good etymological information, the Oxford English especially, because it tracks a word’s meanings over the centuries and illustrates those usages with good quotations. Then there are all the lovely specialized dictionaries: for professions, foreign languages, slang….
Of course, this is a longstanding disease with me. When I was little, the first book I picked out by myself to buy was a child’s guide to etymology.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:48Have you ever played Dictionary? (Also known as Balderdash). It’s ever so fun, and you learn lots of good words
that you then can’t remember the real definition of because your brain is addled with fake definitions.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:50(129) Me too! I have always loved dictionaries and in my spare time at school I have been down to thumb through them, marking down new words. Needless to say I have gotten a lot of sideways glances.
Congratulations Emma! Just getting to be a part of that is an honor!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 12:55131 – Are you the person from 122?
YAAAAAAAAAAY EMMA!!!!!! YOU GOT FARRRR!!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 13:00132- It does seem a happy coincidence, doesn’t it?
*pies bibloRose*
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 13:08aw poop, Emma got out? Ah well at least she was on TV. Did anyone get a screenn-shot of her on ESPN?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 13:11*rushes to YouTube*
WordPress just went very weird on me.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 13:15Argh! YouTube has nothing! Not a single Scripps national spelling bee entry for 2007!
I missed it.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 13:59(132) No, I’m not. Also I meant for it to be biblio not biblo. Thanks for the pie.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 15:00137. are you emma’s friend she met at the bee?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 15:15138 – she already sed no.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 15:36Sorry! I feel like I’m disapointing everybody. Thank You supersaiyajin424.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 15:40Emma, you did great. I tivo’d it, and yelled at the tv when you got out. Remember, you made it to the top 59. In the entire country. That’s amazing.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 15:49140- You’re not disappointing me!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 16:00Uh-oh. That sounded kind of rude. What I meant was, I don’t care that you’re not the girl that Emma met at the bee.
And I pray that that didn’t also sound rude.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 16:05You got out, Emma? NOOOOO!!! I am so sorry!!! I guess the HPBs didn’t get there in time! It is all my fault! I am so sorry! Still, you did a FANTASTIC JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy for you! And top 59 in the country? Wow!! THAT IS SO COOL!!! I know I’d never even be able to be in the Spelling Bee at all. GOOD JOB EMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 16:24142/143- Don’t worry! That was very nice of you in fact. I understand what you meant.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 16:40Emma, you are AMAZING. Sorry you got out. But hey! You got there! That’s awesome!
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Red-tailed HAWK
in May 31st, 2007 @ 16:43*Dies a few more times*
Well, you got way farther than I would have, Emma!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 16:51YAY FOR EMMA!!! YOU MADE MUSERS PROUD!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 17:34Congrats Emma!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 17:38To those of you who are disappointed and/or surprised that I went out, I did try as hard as I could ever since I first mentioned i was going to nationals to convince you all not to expect me to do well. i had good luck in the quarterfinals and did way better than expected, so I’m really happy. i’m also totally amazed to have tied with Samir Patel, who was definitely expected to win by just about everyone. And he went out on a word that i could hae spelled, and almost everyone I talked to could have too. There was like a really loud gasp from probably absolutely everyone in the room when he went out. I kind of feel sorry for him. This is his fifth year here (he’s the ony fifth-timer this year) and he actually got 3rd in his first year in 2003, which was absolutely amazing because he was only 9, then two years later the got 2nd….and this was his last chance, and eeryone thought he would win, and this was his worst performance ever.
I have way more to say, but I guess i’ll finish later or tomorrow, we have to go down and get good seats for wtching the finals.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 17:44150 – WOW!!! YOU TIED THAT GUY!?!?!? *is blown away* What was the word he went out on?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 17:47YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY FOR EMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know a guy (he’s homeschooled,btw) and he went to the spelling bee too, but he didn’t make it pas the preliminaries. I didn’t know it was on tv or that Emma was in it or else i would have watched it. Oh well.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAY EMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Top 59! that’s pretty good!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 18:00Yay Emma posted!!!
I wish there was a picture somewhere of Emma standing up there spelling one of those words right. We don’t get cable, so I didn’t see her on tv either, but it’s just as well… I would have kicked it.
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Beavo the Great
in May 31st, 2007 @ 18:02150-Well congratz Emma, you got MUCH farther than I would have. You sure tried hard! In an hour, Mom is gonna make me watch it.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 18:06150 ~ That was exactly my reaction! I was like “Aw, Emma got out…those damn French words, though…wow, she did great…” Cause you know, you can’t think just one thing at once. And then I was scrolling through the page and I saw that Samir was out. And clevis! Wow!
So, I know I’ve sent you about a million emails, but another big congratulations to ya, Emma!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 18:38Oooh, Emma! You just lived my dream! You were great. It’s incredible how far you got.
In school about 40 people joined the spelling bee, and 30 of them got out on carburetor before I spelled it correctly :). I purposely came in second on oregano.
Congrats! It’s really a big achievement to get as far as you did.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 18:45Congratulations, Emma! I snuck out of lunch and went to the library today, (which I do often), just so I could check your scores!
Did anyone tape it, or anything like that, or know somewhere we can see it?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 19:11Samir Patel’s mother is appealing!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 19:24157- Meh. It’s not on YouTube. Yet.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 19:37158 – what is there to appeal?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 19:42I don’t know. The kid himself said he made a mistake on an easy word, so I really don’t know what there is to appeal. Check out cnn . com (not a link because I know the GAPAs don’t like links).
Anyway, this guy is the one Emma tied with. Impressive. V-e-r-y i-m-p-r-e-s-s-i-v-e!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 19:54I thought that they had already agreed it was a technicality. He said something about them pronouncing the word wrong, but truly I bet he would have missed it anyway. he got a standing ovation.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 21:06hey! i just looked up emma, and there’s a picture!!!
we know what more and more mbers look like, eh?
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Potato Chip
in May 31st, 2007 @ 21:11Looking at the website… you did really great, Emma!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m looking at the round 2 errors… adjective?!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 21:55163 – Where?!?!
I looked at all of the Spelling Bee photos (on their website), but I don’t think I saw her anywhere.
Did anyone see it?!???
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:08165- f you click on her name, Emma *******, it will take you to a page with a pic of her.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:17I wasn’t near a TV tonight, so I followed the bee via my little Treo on the spelling bee website. Exciting finish! All the 15 finalists sounded Museworthy. The second-place finisher, Nat Gartke from Alberta, Canada, was behind me in line at the sandwich shop on Wednesday. We had a brief chat, but it was clear that he was keyed up and didn’t feel like talking. I liked his parents. Still, it’s nice that a Californian took first prize.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:19Congratulations, Emma!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:36167 – GOOOOOOO CALIFORNIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! W00T!!!!!
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:37I’ve been looking at the website and:
a) those words are cool words
b) your picture is pretty, Emma! You didn’t look like I expected you to, though. Mind you, I don’t exactly know what I expected.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:38Feathers, maybe?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:40NOOOOOO!!! All the May threads have been shut down!!! (I know this isn’t the place to post this, but the place that is appropriate for it is shut down.)
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:40171-Possibly.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:45This is a May thread. But yes, I noticed. Tis weird.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:49Oh I see. That kind of May thread.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 22:51I meant the Random thread, Discussion thread, and Newcomers thread.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 23:03It’s weird. On the calendar you can already click to June, but there’s nothing there.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 23:15Aaaarrrg! I can barely wait until June! Even though it’s only forty more minutes to wait! Will it be June Jelly? Or something else?
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 23:37178- Then don’t. Do something else. And yes, it’ll be June Jelly.
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in May 31st, 2007 @ 23:55NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! MY PARENTS SAY IT’S BEDTIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 08:06151-clevis, which he spelled as clevice.
152-Whats his name?
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 08:08177- Your calendar clicks?
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 09:41the winner had a weird voice and didnt even want to be in the bee!
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 09:45I think he was just playing it cool. It was his third time in the bee, so he must have wanted to be there at least a little.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 11:05182 – I meant the museblog calendar.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 11:12Wow! Emma did quite well in the spelling bee. I saw on the website! And I saw her pic. Emma doesn’t have a feather on her at all.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 14:38Hey! How do you spell “unitedlyingparsonageinglyhavuckedfrenzyingcarpetmakers”?
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 14:49No, I don’t have feathers in my human form. When I was a duck I did. But that was years ago.
Anyway, I’ve just spent the last couple hours with Robert (I hope that turns into a smily thingy.) It was fun. I even got to see him moderate. But he typed his password too fast for me to see it, unfortunately. And we got pie! it was sliced, though, o we couldn’t really throw itvery well, so we ended up just eating it…but it was fun. And my typing is horrible. and btw, if you make a completely off-topic post the GAPAs won’t know because when they moderate the posts they can’t see what thread they’re on. And…..what else what else what else……well, ’twas froody. very froody.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 14:49Oh and he signed my muse!
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 14:57188- They can’t? Really? Weird. Hmmmm.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 15:14After we finished our main courses, I said, “Shall we order apple pie for dessert?”
Emma: “WHAT?!” [Wide-eyed with disbelief.] “Pies aren’t for EATING!”
Robert: “Well, technically, no. But they cut them up here, you see. Once a pie has been butchered like that, there’s not much you can do with it except eat it, I’m afraid.”
Emma [shaking head sadly]: “What a waste.”
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 15:38Congratulations, Emma! (sorry I’m saying this late, :oops:) I’m mad now I didn’t watch it on TV! Hopefully it’ll be on YouTube soon.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 16:55191-I don’t think that’s exactly how the conversation went. Did I really say “what a waste”? Pretty close, though.
192-Not sure if it’ll get on youtube, but there will probaby be reruns.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 19:24188-(Emma)I’m sure he typed it fast-from practice AND to keep you from seeing it!!!
Sorry you couldn’t throw the pie, but I don’t think Robert would enjoy REAL pies being thrown!!!
But wait-GAPAs you really can’t see what thread the comments are going to??? Can you comment while in the moderating program, or do you have to go out onto the blog, comment, and go back to moderate it?
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 23:08188 – Emma, you just lived my dream.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 23:15(188) We can tell which thread they’re bound for, but it takes an extra click.We’re usually working pretty fast and don’t bother. And we can comment from within the moderating program.
Such interest in our modus operandi.
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in June 1st, 2007 @ 23:18196- Oh yes, such interest . . . Such sinister interest . . . *menacing laughter*
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 06:26We should have a muse spelling bee! If we can’t have it online, we should do it at the Kokonvention.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 06:26194-actually, he said that there will probably be actual pieing involved in the august kokonvention(s). I REALLY want to go to those. It sounds so froody,
196-that’s what I meant.I talked to Rose again last night, and i’m pretty sure I talked her into coming here. She won’t be back home until Sunday, though.
I also talked to Sarah and she had never heard of muse. I didn’t really have a chance to discuss it with her, but I think my parents told hers about it. She definitely seems like a potential muser. i’ve never heard her talk about herself in the third person though.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 07:08198-Oh come on, now you’re making me REALLY jealous. We need a california kokonvention. Then we can have a spelling bee there. And I can come.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 08:13(200) There are at least three West Coast MBers that I know of: you, Alice, and E2MB. It’s a pretty long coast, though.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 09:25Yea. Alice lives in Washington, and I live in Northern California. Do you live in Northern California too?
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 09:28Who, me? No, I’m in the other Washington, the one with the White House and Congress and all the marble monuments. Rosanne lives in the San Francisco Bay area, though, and Larry Gonick is in San Francisco.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 09:36I meant Emma.
Larry Gonick lives in San Francisco? WOW!!! I live close to him! Rosanne too!
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 10:31200, 201, 202- If we could somehow arrange to have a kokonvention at a time when I was already going down there . . . . which will probably be in two years or some other interminably long time. Oh, drat.
Doesn’t Cat’s Meow live in Washington? State?
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 15:28202-No, southern. L.A. area.
I can’t actually be the only Southern california mBers, can I? there should be more…..
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Beavo the Great
in June 2nd, 2007 @ 16:54Hey! I saw that guy win the other night, and you could just see his face when they said the word, you knew he knew it.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 17:13206-I think Rosanne-wait or is it Rebecca-anyway, one of the GAPAs lives down there…
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 19:39hey, we might be going to DC sometime this summer. we’re going to virginia, but dad wants to stop by there and look at purdy buildings. he’s a huge history geek who loves architecture, DC is pretty much his life in a nutshell.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 19:51206-I’m pretty sure there are others. Southern California has a huge population. Hold on, let me go check…
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 20:07Nope. The only other MBers on the west coast appear to be:
Cat’s Meow (Washington state)
Lord Ragevuire (SF area)
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 20:51207-He definitely knew it. It was in the frequent section of the cwl, and one of few words in the finals that I actually knew. It’s rather odd, but winning words usually seem to be annoyingly easy compared to the other words at the end of the bee. (btw, “that guy” is Evan O’Dorney and “the word” was serrefine.
208-Rosanne is in california somewhere, but Northern I think.
210-That’s why I’m annoyed that there aren’t more, because there should be.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 21:29211- Wrong. C++darkmage, Gimanator possibly Hanako, and i all live in the same town in t he SF area.
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 21:38213 – Do you all know each other or what?
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in June 2nd, 2007 @ 22:09214- They do. And now I know their names. Heheheh…
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in June 3rd, 2007 @ 07:38I wonder if I could get to a SF kokonvention….
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in June 3rd, 2007 @ 07:53SF???
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in June 3rd, 2007 @ 10:02217-SF is San Francisco.
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in June 3rd, 2007 @ 17:17215- What? Hanako is Hanako, C++darkmage has never revealed his name, and the Gimanatoor and i only on pie isle.
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in June 3rd, 2007 @ 17:27Okay, well, I don’t know C++darkmage’s name, but I know yours and giminator’s. But I thought . . . Oh never mind, I haven’t time. I thought that C++darkmage’s name might have been revealed on the Pie War, when you were all talking about stuff and not pieing each other, but I guess not.
217- Script Frenzy. Or San Fransisco, if you want to look at it that way.
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 11:47220-I think in this context, it’s San Franicsco.
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 15:2358 – I doubt that Reagan spelled “enough” as “enuf” because he was ignorant of the conventional way of spelling it – more likely I’d guess that he simply felt that “enuf” (along with “burocrat” and “burocracy”, which I’ve heard he used in place of “bureaucrat” and “bureaucracy”) seemed more logical, since it obeys English alphabetic principles more closely.
It’s also my impression that a number of pro-reformers are desirous not for our orthography to be made phonetic as such but rather for at least some of its divergent spellings (“friend” being a good example, since everyone seems to rhyme it with “trend”) to be brought into line with pre-existing dominant patterns – the idea being that it should make English less of a headache to learn and teach to read and write in and (with a bit of luck) help bring down levels of illiteracy in English-speaking nations.
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 16:12222-“English alphabetic principles”? Sorry, but I have spent a lot of time studying English spelling, and it doesn’t have any principles. English is completely unprincipled (but we love it anyway).
And I don’t understand the difference between spelling friend as frend and making it phonetic. Isn’t frend the phonetic spelling?
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 16:49223 – My reference to “alphabetic principles” was an allusion to patterns that strike me as being most dominant. For example, while “pant” could in theory be rhymed with “tent” (i.e. with its “a” sounding like that in “many”) for all the reader would know if he/she were familiar with written and spoken English but not this particular word, the chances are still that it would be pronounced the way it really is.
And you’re right needless to say that “frend” is almost certainly how “friend” would be spelled if our orthography had a phonetic overhaul, but it is also I can imagine how the word would emerge if the reform were a more moderate one that involved reducing its irregularities as opposed to revamping the whole system.
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 16:55(222, 224) Jon,
I haven’t seen you on the blog before. Are you a Muse reader?
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 17:05225 – Have never read the Muse magazine I must admit, but it’s certainly not unusual during my spare time for me to read blogs of all kinds.
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 17:23Any reason you picked this particular blog to comment on our wonderfully esoteric language? Just asking, because the usual frequenters of this blog tend to be younger, and your lexicon demonstrates your either very well read or not a teenager.
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 17:41226 – Dude, read the mag. It’s awesome. 8)
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 18:04227- I actually talk like that sometimes, Iike when l’m talking to popular people.
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 18:05227- Or putting on airs. (No offense.)
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in June 4th, 2007 @ 18:34waaa, she didn’t win!
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in June 5th, 2007 @ 18:58226-You might be the first person ever to post on MB who hasn’t read Muse. How old are you? but I guess a newbie is a newbie, so *pies Jon*
231-I told you all i wouldn’t, and I said that I really didn’t want people to think I would because I didn’t want to feel like I was disappointing others. If you didn’t listen to me and assumed i would win, i’m sorry. I really did my best to make you understand that it was higly unlikely for me to do really well. I’m happy with how it turned out, but I really wish other people would be too rather than act disappointed in me because I didn’t win.
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in June 5th, 2007 @ 19:03232 – Don’t think you made people dissapointed. You got very far!
Muselover doesn’t come on here often, so he/she might have just skimmed the thread.
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in June 5th, 2007 @ 19:05232- You did do well. I didn’t really expect you to win, since the chances were one in 200 and whatever, but you did really well nonetheless.
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in June 5th, 2007 @ 19:05I realized that posting “waah she didn’t win” wouldn’t make Emma feel all that good a while ago, and I hope other people have figured that out too.
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in June 5th, 2007 @ 19:05232- gimanator has never read it, and he was here first.
My friend knows the winner of the bee. He lives in Danville.
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in June 5th, 2007 @ 19:18234- 286, but that’s assuming it was random. Really different people have way different chances, so it’s much more complicated.
236-I know the winner too! or I met him at least. And all the other spellers.
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in June 6th, 2007 @ 08:21We are not disappointed in you Emma! Not now, not ever!
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in June 9th, 2007 @ 12:19Emma, you did awesome! All of the people who acted all dissapointed obviously never got as far as you did. It’s amzing to get such a cool opporunity. Unleash the hPB’S upon all who disagree!
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in June 9th, 2007 @ 12:30Spelling Bee competitions? Only necessary for an illiterate country.
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in June 9th, 2007 @ 21:39240-I’m sorry, but how exactly did you reach that conclusion?
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in June 10th, 2007 @ 07:56241: Correct spelling should be taken for granted, and not turned into a competitive sport.
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in June 10th, 2007 @ 17:16242-Have you ever seen the words in the national spelling bee, especially the later rounds? Do you relly think it should be taken for granted that the average American can spell all those words? Can you?
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in June 12th, 2007 @ 11:25Well, that’s the point, isn’t it? The average American is illiterate. The average American should be able to do just fine in the spelling bee, because the average American should be literate. However, they aren’t, and therefore they have to come up with a reason to learn spelling.
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in June 12th, 2007 @ 17:55244-Again, do you really think the normal American should be expected to spel words like the ones used on the national spelling bee? And can you spell them? literate is one thing, and i agree that it would be nice if more people were literate. But national spelling bee is far beyond normal literacy.
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Glassboro lost the game
in June 12th, 2007 @ 18:23The point is that it shouldn’t be.
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in June 12th, 2007 @ 19:00246-Sorry, i still don’t get it. you’re saying that spelling bees shouldn’t be hard, and therefore they shouldn’t exist? Why exactly?
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E2MB suggests that if you are not on an RRR that you join one because they are fun
in June 12th, 2007 @ 20:00Spelling bees are a way for extremely good spellers to get recognized. America is by no means an illiterate country! It’s literacy rate is quite high compared to the rest of the world, too! Corrective spelling is taken for granted in the US, and then there are competitions that ask kids how to spell words people just about never use as a true test of skill!
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in June 12th, 2007 @ 20:05248-Exactly, thank you.
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in June 12th, 2007 @ 20:09I think Glassboro is trying to say the average American should be able to spell the words used in the National Spelling Bee. Glassboro, unless you can spell every word they give, I wouldn’t be pushing this position. FS, I doubt that you would be able to spell these words either, so lay off. These competitions pick the most obscure and byzantine words they can find, words that are not in the lexicon of even the most educated people in any english speaking country, not just the US. It’s just fun, and very few people actually participate in these competitions. People compete in tons of venues. If you want to challenge ridiculous sporting ventures, try eating contests.
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in June 12th, 2007 @ 20:32232-no, there have been a few others. usually searching for the band, or kokopelli or something.
go emma! have i said that since you got back? oh well.
hey, the spelling bee people gave me and my friend free parties at craig’s cruisers for three years (the only reason i was actually in it…ssh :D). they can’t be that bad, huh?
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in June 14th, 2007 @ 21:16250- I haven’t seen the words, so I don
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Glassboro lost the game
in June 14th, 2007 @ 21:19Gah. It got cut off. I’ll re-post it:
250- I haven’t seen the words, so I don’t know if I can spell them. Eating contests are crazy…
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in June 14th, 2007 @ 22:12253- Just picking some random words here off the website, how about amphipneustic? Bouleuterion? Abseil? There are many more on the website, and I, as a fairly good speller, know I couldn’t make it past round one or two. Google “national spelling bee” and look at the round results. They don’t give easy words, despite what Emma says, she’s very good.
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in June 14th, 2007 @ 22:20253-go to the national spelling bee website and click on “round results” It’s www. spellingbee. com , if the GAPAs don’t snip that….
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in June 14th, 2007 @ 22:51254-thank you
of those three, i don’t even remember the first two from the bee, but I had studied abseil, which is particularly odd because the b sounds more like a p. it’s pronounced basically like AP-zile or something like that. Oh and btw, how about gardez? that has a silent z!
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in June 15th, 2007 @ 22:56I’m Rose from the spelling bee. I remember those three, but I definitely couldn’t spell bouleuterion. I had studied abseil and I knew the roots to amphipneustic, so I might have gotten that. I could only have gotten about 2 words in round 7.
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in June 15th, 2007 @ 23:10Welcome, Rose! We’ve been expecting you. So glad to “see” you at last.
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in June 15th, 2007 @ 23:14*pies Rose* Hiya Rose!!!!!!!! Hop on into the weird fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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in June 16th, 2007 @ 01:17Welcome, Rose! We’ve been awaiting you. (Ooh, that sounded creepy. Sorry.) *pies*
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in June 16th, 2007 @ 11:35257-Rose! Nice to see you. i’d given up hope of ever hearing from you. What’s the fourth letter in your e-mail address?
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in June 16th, 2007 @ 11:36Oh, and I can’t beliee I forgot to pie. *pies Rose*
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in June 17th, 2007 @ 13:10Be happy you didn’t win, Emma. I remember you saying that it sounded like a nightmare on Wednesday night after they told us that if you won you would have to do a ton of interviews, sleep for about 2 hours, and then do some more interviews.
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in June 17th, 2007 @ 14:17Does the 73 mean you got 73rd place?
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in June 17th, 2007 @ 16:44No, I was speller number 73. I actually got 34th place like Emma.
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in June 18th, 2007 @ 13:52speller73 isn’t on the who’s here page yet!!!!
Details at one
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in June 20th, 2007 @ 20:53263-lol yes. I did. I think i actually said I didn’t even want to make the championship finals and I briefly considered purposely misspelling my last word of the semifinals if i was still in so I wouldn’t hae to do all that….but of course, I didn’t last that long.
264-No one got 73rd place. Or anything between 60th and 95th.
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in July 5th, 2007 @ 16:07what place did you finish, emma?
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in August 26th, 2007 @ 16:59268- 26-way tie for 34th.
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in October 16th, 2007 @ 13:47I got in third for the one last year. But i am dtermined to get first this time.
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in October 16th, 2007 @ 13:48This forum was established a day after my bday [fyi]
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in May 19th, 2008 @ 16:56I notice that this thread is dead, but I thought I might mention that this year’s National Spelling Bee is Thursday and Friday next week. A new thread might be nice…
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in May 20th, 2008 @ 22:15I just found speller73 and emmatheduck on the national spelling bee archives. Awesome! You pwn and good luck!
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in May 30th, 2008 @ 15:45it’s not entirely dead…
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