Is anyone on CC a national spelling bee participant/champion?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>In fifth grade I spelled slimy wrong. I’ll never forget it. why would slimy be a spelling bee word anyway??</p>

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<p>I got knocked out because I said “bare skin” instead of “bearskin.” After that they asked cockroach (which I knew how to spell), and everyone in the room who was left got it wrong. I’m bitter about it to this day, and I wish I’d made an appeal (how was I supposed to know which definition they meant?).</p>

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<p>I made it to the regional finals twice (semifinals three times); I never went to Nationals. I just went for the fun of it, but a lot of the others there were really intense…they would study Webster/medical dictionaries during breaks. :slight_smile: I admire any kid who has the dedication to commit to something like that.</p>

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<p>I love how everyone remembers the words he/she got wrong…mine were:</p>

<p>5th grade: mezzanine (totally messed it up)</p>

<p>6th grade: xanthocroid (SO CLOSE…I misheard it and spelled it xanthRocroid…arrghhh)</p>

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<p>I was serious, though. Anyone that’s read the Asterix series could you exactly what a menhir is and spell it right easily (funny how it’s not in the Firefox dictionary). See the picture below.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/pics/characters/obelix.gif[/url]”>http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/pics/characters/obelix.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I never made it. </p>

<p>I’ve always hated learning how to spell. I’m decent now, but not good by any means.</p>

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<p>I only made it to state. Got to about the 8th round and got out. Don’t remember the word though. It was a long time ago…</p>

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<p>I won in 6th grade.</p>

<p>Lol. I wish. I think I mis-spelled chauffeur?</p>

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<p>I got out in the first round in 4th grade…on the word barber</p>

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<p>i spelled alibi incorrectly at a district bee. lol</p>

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<p>“patern” - 6th grade.</p>

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<p>My friend’s younger brother was just in this past one. He got through the first two rounds, but he messed up on the written test to go into semifinals. He was 4 points away. He’s not even one of the uber-competitive types who writes on their hands</p>

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<p>I won my like school division in 5th grade and got knocked out at Districts :/</p>

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<p>I got 2nd place at my 6th grade spelling bee. I probably could have gotten first, but I realized that I was either going to get 1st or second and I freaked out. (I don’t win things often, I guess…)</p>

<p>The word was preprocedure. I put a ‘Q’ in there somehow… lol. I’ll always remember that. I got to go to regionals, but got cut pretty early.</p>

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<p>I got to be in the school spelling bee in 5th grade, but I got out in the very first round with “fearful.” Spelled it with two l’s. Ugh.</p>

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<p>I would’ve won the school one, and my word was “electrocution,” which was sooo easy, but when I heard it I heard “electrotution” and I was like what? And I say “electro tu tion” and she said “yes, electrotution” and I spelled it e-l-e-c-t-r-o-t-u-t-i-o-n and she was like WRONG. And I was like “but you said it was tution” and she’s like no, after she gives all these other kids lame redoes. Whatever.</p>

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<p>lol that’s me</p>

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<p>I wanted to partisipate once, but for some resan, everybuddy says that my speling is awefull.</p>

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<p>I guess we did an early round in class or something in middle school, 7th grade. I was always supposedly a good speller (in second grade I was the “teacher’s spell check,” sounds a little obnoxious now that I think of it, but anyway) so I was pretty confident.
Until I got the word “larceny.” I had never heard it before, but I knew about arson, so I spelled it “larsony.” Obviously it was wrong and I was sad that I got kicked out of this thing in my English class.
Soon I began seeing and hearing the word EVERYWHERE. Typical.</p>

<p>The next year, they decided not to do the spelling bee thing. I was disappointed.</p>

<p>As for the geography bee…I totally guessed on my questions.</p>

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<p>My daughter was in it in 8th grade. She didn’t make it past the written round. It was a blast and the Scripps does a great job of making sure all the kids and their families have an awesome time.</p>