Posted on 05/28/2009 9:40:29 AM PDT by LibWhacker
WASHINGTON (AP) Forty-one youngsters are competing for the title of national spelling champion.
The semifinals of the 82nd Scripps Nationals Spelling Bee began Thursday morning. The semifinalists are those remaining from a record 293 participants who arrived in the nation's capital this week.
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Red flag going up. Someone watching the program will complain of the inequity of including religious terminology. Guess it's just a matter of time before they include words from the Qu'uran or eliminate all religious reference materials.
Tuesday evening, ESPN2 televised what I suppose was last year's finals. The majority of finalists were Indian and Oriental. The toughest words were all foreign language.
They cut the number of kids down to 41 from the normal 90 semifinalists, making the trek to become one even harder.
The Spelling Bee is such fun! I hopey changey I can catch some of it on The Dish later. Cheers!
Just heard the same sort of thing for a San Diego kid which was eliminated: they asked him/her to spell a french word; what is up with that?
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