<p>I only saw the beginning but I remember that they totally took someone out of the competition but went back and found out they had a typo on the word list!!</p>
<p>I woulda been so freaked out (happy of course, but stunned) if I got called back up after I had correctly spelled the word but had been told I was wrong.</p>
<p>some of the words that they used arnt even considered words in microsoft word. ok first of all, the girl who came in second (finola) was jipped. the word was weltschmerz, and she spelled veltschmerz. i know its an error but the pronouncer was saying it like it started with V, and when she asked if there was alternate pronunciation he said no, but really there is. my LA teacher was telling me in the US its generally pronounced with a w and that its considered alternate pronunciation. ok, and the girl who one?? at the end they were saying "yes kerry you are a skilled sailor and national spelling bee champ, how does it feel?" ive sailed against this girl before, and lets just say she didnt do well. </p>
<p>thats all i have to say. lol</p>
<p>Ooh, small world, prepchick91.</p>
<p>My mom saw Finola writing V on her hand and she started yelling at the screen. That was hilarious.</p>
<p>I didn't know English 'til the third grade. "Suger." =P</p>
<p>First poker makes it big... next thing up, SPELLING BEES!</p>
<p>"you mean "heptaphyllous"? yeah you really suck lol"</p>
<p>No. That's not what I meant. It was HEP-I-TI-PHLITUS.</p>
<p>Sound it out.</p>
<p>It meant something having to do with appendicitus.</p>
<p>I almost won a spelling bee once in elementary school, and just last week my english teacher decided to have a spelling bee and it was so fun because everyone got to see my very competitive side. My team lost, however.</p>
<p>I recognized a number of the words, but had no idea what the last few were. However, my father knew nearly all of them as he knows Greek and German.</p>
<p>"First poker makes it big... next thing up, SPELLING BEES!"</p>
<p>Spelling Bees started to appear on TV way before poker.</p>
<p>sorry prepchick but weltschmerz is german and in german the w is pronounced like our v. that is the only pronunciation.</p>
<p>Woo top three were girls!!!!!</p>
<p>I have never participate in a spelling bee before but I followed and watched my brother many times at his spelling bee. He won the district one, and on the one previous to the national one he got 8th place.</p>
<p>Don't you think it was kind of unfair. It all depend on the number that you have and a little luck. All you need is to get through the first few rounds. If people start losing and you happen to be the last few numbers, you will automatically get in the top ten without having to spell anything.</p>
<p>I participated in the National Spelling Bee in the 7th and 8th grade ('03-'04). It was quite an experience, and I really enjoyed meeting interesting people for once. I never got past Round Two - the words were ridiculously hard and I wasn't experienced enough to know the "tricks of the trade" like most of the kids there did. (Or at least, their helicopter mom parents did.)</p>
<p>Now, if only this could land me a spot in Harvard, haha.</p>
<p>Haha, did anyone watch that movie "Spellbound"? With that one guy, whose parents hired a thousand people in India to pray for him to win.</p>
<p>"If people start losing and you happen to be the last few numbers, you will automatically get in the top ten without having to spell anything."</p>
<p>Technically, people who exit in the same round finish in the same place.</p>
<p>Did anyone notice that the kid on the first page who said he'd been to the National Spelling Bee three times spelled "opportunity" wrong?</p>
<p>I have a knack for spelling. In 8th grade, I placed third in the city of Chicago after placing 3rd at regionals (out of 80).</p>
<p>I've never participated in one of those. I hate them. </p>
<p>How do you spell: aquired immuno deficiency syndrome (AIDS). I'm pterry sure I spelled it wrong.</p>
<p>acquired immune deficiency syndrome</p>
<p>I got 2nd place in a school-wide bee in 5th grade :)
I haven't gotten a chance to join a spelling bee since.</p>
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Haha, did anyone watch that movie "Spellbound"? With that one guy, whose parents hired a thousand people in India to pray for him to win.
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Of course I saw the movie, I absolutely love it, btw that was Neil right, yeah his dad was intense. Though that one kid absolutely cracks me, oh waht's his name, Harry???, well you know the one who wondered if the microphone was edible, LOL :D</p>