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Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2370
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:32 pm: | 
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Syringadenous – of or relating to the sweat glands
COME ON!!!!!
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2371
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:38 pm: |
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Heiligenschein Hy-La-gin-Shine
Wait I'm not sure but maybe the Favorite is out. How can I put money on this thing??????????????
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2372
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:39 pm: |
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Oh my a softball......Hukilou |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2373
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:41 pm: |
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I can't even spell my middle name. These kids should use their powers to fight crime!!!!! |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 4523
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:42 pm: |
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Wow, you wouldn't do too well, it's Spelling BEE.
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2374
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:45 pm: |
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And National
And Spelling
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2375
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:45 pm: |
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And National
And Spelling
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2376
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:46 pm: |
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The girl from Spring Lake NJ is kicking ••• |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2377
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:46 pm: |
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HEY!!!! That b***h is writing the word on her hand! |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2378
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:47 pm: |
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Wait she's out. Good. Spring Lake is #2 at least!!!! |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2379
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:52 pm: |
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Ok it's down to Canada and Spring lake nj
Machicotage
Holy crap! She got it |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2380
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:53 pm: |
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Were screwed ...... Recrrementitious |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2381
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:53 pm: |
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you go girl!!!!!
I need another beer |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2382
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:56 pm: |
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Ok were back. 2 spellers left |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2383
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:57 pm: |
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esquisse |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2384
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:58 pm: |
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Psittacism
FWIW Greek to Latin |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2385
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:58 pm: |
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This girl just corrected the judges!!!! |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2386
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:59 pm: |
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Spring Lake = Aubade! Cha Ching! |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2387
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 9:59 pm: |
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We could have Co-Champs for the first time in 44 years! |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2388
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:01 pm: |
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How the hell can they know this stuff?? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2389
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:01 pm: |
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Arabic to Hindie, REALLY???? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2390
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:05 pm: |
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The Audience just laughed at the definition. I didn't even understand it  |
Brett
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Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2391
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:05 pm: |
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!!!! I think NJ may WIN!!!!
Canada is stuck!!!! |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2392
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:05 pm: |
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60 seconds left |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2393
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:06 pm: |
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YES!!!!!!!!
HA HA W not V it's German! |
Smoochie
Citizen
Username: Smoochie
Post Number: 80
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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Brett
Are you having fun?? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2394
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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Wait, I don't know the rules here but Spring Lake has to spell 2 more words.
Sandscrit!
wow, just wow |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9687
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:08 pm: |
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Sanskrit |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2395
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:09 pm: |
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I'm going to try this first...
Oraspraka
Ursprache, I was wrong.
GO SPRING LAKE NJ! WE WIN! |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2396
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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Thanks Dave, like I didn't feel stupid enough. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2397
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:11 pm: |
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Ok it's over. Thanks for joining me tonight. I'm going to watch Family Guy, that's more my speed. |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 9688
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:18 pm: |
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It was the only one I knew |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 2399
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 10:28 pm: |
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No that was the origin, not the word. I couldn't even type the word. |
Just The Aunt
Supporter
Username: Auntof13
Post Number: 5228
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 12:18 am: |
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13-Year-Old From New Jersey Wins National Spelling Bee
Katharine Close Is First Girl to Win Competition Since 1999
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, AP
Katharine Close, of Spring Lake, New Jersey, seals the win after rattling off the word "ursprache."
WASHINGTON (June 1) - For the first time in seven years, a girl has the honor of being called America's best speller.
Katharine Close, a 13-year-old New Jersey girl making her fifth and final appearance at the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, aced "ursprache" to claim the title.
The eighth-grader at the H.W. Mountz School in Spring Lake is the first female winner since 1999. After hearing the familiar word during Thursday's final on prime-time television, she knew she would win.
"I couldn't believe it. I knew I knew how to spell the word and I was just in shock," said Katharine, who stepped back from the microphone and put her hands to her mouth after the judges declared her the winner following 20 rounds of spelling. "I couldn't believe I would win."
Asked what she'll remember most, she said: "Probably just hearing 'ursprache"' - which means a parent language.
Katharine, who tied for seventh-place last year, goes home with more than $42,000 in cash and prizes, including an engraved trophy cup.
Runner-up was Finola Mei Hwa Hackett, a 14-year-old Canadian, a confident speller during two days of competition who nonetheless stumbled on "weltschmerz."
Third-place went to Saryn Hooks, a 14-year-old from West Alexander Middle School in Taylorsville, N.C., who was disqualified earlier in the evening, then returned to competition after the judges corrected their mistake. Saryn fumbled on "icteritious," which means of a jaundiced color.
Katharine, who always kept her hands in her pockets as she spelled her words, said she wasn't trying to look cool - she was actually holding a good-luck pendant.
"It's an angel pendant," Katharine said, removing it from her left pocket. "It was given to me by a family in my town and I always put it in my pocket during spelling bees. I think it brings good luck, for some reason."
Driven by the popularity of recent movies, books and a Broadway musical on the seemingly improbable theme of spelling hard words, the bee featured prime-time television coverage for the first time in its 79-year history. ABC broadcast the final from 8 p.m. until the winner was crowned just after 10 p.m. EDT.
The prime-time broadcast made for an exceptionally long night for the spellers. By comparison, last year's champion emerged just after 4:30 p.m. EDT.
Spellers took to the stage minutes before the broadcast, huddling and chanting "1-2-3, Spell" before taking their seats. Their parents sat on stage, too, across the aisle.
The broadcast had the flavor and style of a sports program, opening with a montage of the competitors and including a short profile of the first speller before he got his word. Profiles of other spellers followed during subsequent commercial breaks, and each pause in the competition brought a groan from the audience.
Each word or grimace by spellers triggered a blast of camera shutters, and the live TV camera followed the losers into the arms of comforting parents.
Even gamblers got into the act, putting money down on questions including whether the final word would have an "e" in it and whether the winner would wear glasses. Simon Noble, CEO of PinnacleSports.com, said his offshore Internet sports betting company had received about $70,000 in wagers on seven propositions about the bee as of noon Thursday.
The pace of competition, held in the basement ballroom of a Washington hotel, was slowed by the need to accommodate commercial breaks in the TV coverage provided by ABC, as well as earlier by ESPN.
"We're out for another two-minute commercial break," or "We're out for about a minute and a half," bee director Paige Kimble announced frequently, connected by headset to the network directors. The announcements drew frequent groans from an audience interested in faster action.
The competition paused for ABC to air commercials pitching credit cards, fast food, cell phones, digital cameras, clothing stores, breath fresheners, allergy medication, storm doors, kids movies, spray-on sunscreen, electric shavers for men and pastel-colored razors for women.
The bee began Wednesday with 274 fourth- through eighth-graders.
The spellers sat below hot lights on the red-and-blue, made-for-TV stage. On Thursday, all wore matching white, short-sleeve polo shirts with the bee logo on the left chest.
Spellers made it to the finals by winning contests in the 50 states, as well as in American Samoa, the Bahamas, Canada, Europe, Guam, Jamaica, New Zealand, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
ESPN has broadcast the second day of the bee since 1994. This year, in a nod to the popularity of "reality TV," the championship rounds were moved to ABC for a live, prime-time event before a larger viewing audience. The Walt Disney Co. owns both networks.
All the attention follows a series of bee-centered developments in the popular culture.
"Akeelah and the Bee," a movie about a Los Angeles girl who overcomes adversity to win the national spelling bee, opened nationwide in late April.
That followed last year's "Bee Season," about a man focused on his daughter's quest to become a spelling bee champ. It was based on the best-selling novel by Myla Goldberg.
Also last year, the Broadway musical, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," won two Tony awards. And the 2002 documentary "Spellbound" followed eight teenagers during their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee.
The Louisville Courier-Journal started the bee in 1925. The E.W. Scripps Co., a media conglomerate, assumed sponsorship in 1941.
06-01-06 23:45 EDT
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CFA
Citizen
Username: Cfa
Post Number: 1649
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 4:02 am: |
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Let's just say Brett is no Sbenois. |
Virtual It Girl
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Username: Shh
Post Number: 4526
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 7:01 am: |
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I guess I'm no editor either and I missed what I assume was the joke of spelling all the words wrong! |
MeAndTheBoys
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Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 3885
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 8:18 am: |
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Don't feel bad, VIG, I missed it at first too.
Unbelievable! How the heck they know such obscure words is beyond me. And what the heck difference does it make the "origin" of the word? Is that just a tactic to stall while they try to figure it out? I guess it give some indication as to the way a word might be spelled, whether it's german or hindi? |
Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3284
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 2:31 pm: |
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Origin can mean the difference between a V and a W. Or an EI vs and IE. ending with a I vs ending with a Y.
And no, I was never a good speller. |
shoshannah
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Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 1271
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 3:26 pm: |
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Word origin (or etymology, as some of the spellers said) is everything when it comes to spelling. Just ask the the runner-up, who obviously did not study German word origins. |
red
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Username: Redy67
Post Number: 5618
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 4:54 pm: |
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Impressive. She made it look so easy... |
Bajou
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Username: Bajou
Post Number: 433
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 2, 2006 - 5:04 pm: |
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Actually Ursprache does not mean parental language but a language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. Also called Protolanguage.
I only know this cause german is my mother language. |
Debby
Citizen
Username: Debby
Post Number: 2321
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 - 12:13 pm: |
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I loved when Saryn was called out on "hechsher" (which she spelled correctly) and then was reinstated 2 rounds later.
Evidently the winner studies spelling 1-2 hours every day, all year. |
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