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Dallas duel: Wild card turns tables at National Spelling Bee
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| 6/1/18
| BEN NUCKOLS
Posted on 06/01/2018 7:03:51 AM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell
I saw a “Where are they now” type news thing of past winners of this spelling bee.
You would think, all these kids would go to Ivy League schools and end up doctors ect., but it was all over the map.
One of them was a zookeeper.
To: BBell
How many of those kids are homeschooled? ...go to private schools? ...go to public schools?
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posted on
06/01/2018 8:22:33 AM PDT
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johnthebaptistmoore
(The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
To: BBQToadRibs
And the winning word was Greek.
Seems like cheating to me on the part of Scripps.
To: T-Bird45
Exactly my thought as I heard some of the words used in earlier rounds. Need some Scrabble-type rules about words being in English. Of course, English is cobbled together from lots of other linguistic origins... Cobbled?
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll
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posted on
06/01/2018 8:39:54 AM PDT
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GreenLanternCorps
(Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.arare)
To: GreenLanternCorps
I say “cobbled” and you post the Nicoll quote about a “cribhouse whore.” Same/same, n’est-ce pas??? LOL!!
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06/01/2018 9:23:52 AM PDT
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T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: johnthebaptistmoore
I think I saw the ID bug underneath both the winner and the girl who lost shows they attend public middle schools in one of the Dallas metroplex suburbs.
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posted on
06/01/2018 9:26:11 AM PDT
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T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: BBell
>> the ethnicity of the winner.<<
Karthik Nemmani's victory makes him the 14th consecutive Indian-American champion.
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06/02/2018 9:19:12 AM PDT
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Kid Shelleen
((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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