Today was our school's Spelling Bee.
I've been the pronouncer of words at our spelling bees for many years (I'm not saying exactly how many). I have to study the words just as much as the kids do, so I don't make any pronunciation errors. Here are a few of the 600 words from today that I had to pronounce, know the word origins, definitions, parts of speech, and be able to use in a sentence:
::plisse
mucilaginous
scintillescent
altricial
quidnunc
orinthophilous
echinacea
otiosity
nyctalopia
cardiomegaly
inimically
seguidilla
valetudinarian
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What's even more amazing is that one fourth, one fifth. and one sixth.grader spelled these words correctly...
1 comment:
oh my goodness, i could never do that! i'm an awful speller...my husband is even worse...which is hard to imagine!
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