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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

I'm never going to look at the word 'arraignment' and not think I've misspelled it. it's just one of those words

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Chris Fox's avatar

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.

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Kathleen's avatar

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.

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Chris Fox's avatar

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.

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Kathleen's avatar

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.

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Caelesto's avatar

I've been a paralegal for 15 years and I still need to spell it out like a kindergartner every time.

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Kathleen's avatar

It reminds me of the French word for spider: l'araign├йe.

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Kathleen's avatar

And because of arraignment, I always want to add an extra R to the spelling of l'araign├йe.

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Chris Fox's avatar

It's got a G

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