Maddie finished fifth in the Buffalo News Spelling Bee today. The top-five finish won her $25, plus some other gifts.The word she missed on was filiality. She spelled correctly: diorama, formidable, capitulation, prosaic, ambivalent, blithe and cruciferous. They may look easy on paper, but when the real bullets are flying it's a different story.
The contestants were dropping like flies in the seventh and eighth rounds, missing on protrusile, jadeite, sempiturnal, plumicorn, simpatico, adjuvant and caudal. (Notice how I recount that like Alex Trebek, as though I knew all the answers.)
The winning word spelled by the Bee champion was bimillenary.
We're extremely proud of Maddie, who is off to high school next year, and has used up her Bee eligibility. (I thought about redshirting her, but couldn't get a doctor's note in time.)
3 comments:
Way to go Maddie! We're very proud of you. Love, Uncle Chris, Aunt Ursula, Zack and Seamus
Maddie:
Kudos on your transcendent success.
Uncle John, Aunt Lisa, Jack and Meg
Maddie:
Congratulations - this is excellent news from a prodigious speller of multisyllabic words!
Lots of love, Gram
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