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To: reaganaut1

In 5th grade, I won the school spelling bee and went to citywide competition. I went for five rounds and misspelled occurrence.

2 posted on 04/05/2009 2:08:27 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (Now is zee time on Schprockets ven ve dance!)

To: pandoraou812

ping

3 posted on 04/05/2009 2:14:23 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)

To: ovrtaxt

Amazing that you can remember the word you missed, huh? I missed "skiing" in 3rd grade, and "chrysanthemum*" in 7th grade.

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*Yeah, the fix was in . . . too many parents watching, and the school didn't want a 7th grader beating the entire 8th grade class.

4 posted on 04/05/2009 2:14:48 PM PDT by 1rudeboy

To: ovrtaxt

Congratulations. I bet you never misspelled occurrence again.

5 posted on 04/05/2009 2:18:31 PM PDT by GOP Poet

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