I won my school spelling bee and competed in the city finals. I think because I read a lot maybe it helped my spelling ability. But I sure am not as confident in my abilities these days.
I won every bee on my life but that one. But never heard anything about municipal contests. However in high school I was sent to the International Science Fair for my experiments on growing crystals too fast so their interfacial angles were distorted.
Yeah it was the Scripps Nat'l Spelling Bee so once you won your school then you had to go tothe competition at the city level & then beyond that I suppose for the national level which I didn't make it to, but hey that crystal experiment was pretty cool.
I'm never going to look at the word 'arraignment' and not think I've misspelled it. it's just one of those words
In the fifth grade I dropped out of a spelling bee because I didn't know about the D in handkerchief.
Almost sixty years ago and still it stings.
I won my school spelling bee and competed in the city finals. I think because I read a lot maybe it helped my spelling ability. But I sure am not as confident in my abilities these days.
I won every bee on my life but that one. But never heard anything about municipal contests. However in high school I was sent to the International Science Fair for my experiments on growing crystals too fast so their interfacial angles were distorted.
Yeah it was the Scripps Nat'l Spelling Bee so once you won your school then you had to go tothe competition at the city level & then beyond that I suppose for the national level which I didn't make it to, but hey that crystal experiment was pretty cool.
I've been a paralegal for 15 years and I still need to spell it out like a kindergartner every time.
It reminds me of the French word for spider: l'araign├йe.
And because of arraignment, I always want to add an extra R to the spelling of l'araign├йe.
It's got a G