1. pension
2. abundance
3. ebullience
4. epiphytic
5. gangue (I spelled it wrong)
6. deshabillle (I spelled it wrong)
7. ziggurat
8. dizen (I spelled it wrong)
Robert won. Good job Robert.
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November 2, 2010spelling bee
1. column
2. stratum
3. fluorescent / gestalt (I was the last to spell in the round, I could have had either)
4. breccia (I spelled it wrong)
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October 26, 20101. pressure
2. proportional
3. heifer
4. bouillabaisse
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October 19, 20101. grieve
2. retch
3. poussin
I gave up before the bee started, so I laid on the grenade for the newcomers.
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October 12, 20101. vicious
2. independence
3. echidna
4. kittel (spelled it wrong)
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October 5, 20101. pirate
2. pontificate
3. civet
4. renascence (spelled it wrong)
5. dulcinea
6. coelum (spelled it wrong)
7. eschatology
8. marmennill (spelled it wrong)
There were 3 of us tied for 1st, they ran out of words, which is ridiculous. They made us come up with rhyming couplets about how the spelling bee was happening in the bar in the back of Mississippi Pizza for some reason. I came up with:
I hope to become the Spelling Bee winner.
Everclear tastes like paint thinner.
The girl who won had something about Gustav Klimt’s painting of The Kiss which is on the wall in the pub. She rightfully won.
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September 28, 20101. stooge
2. mastodon
3. parliament (spelled it wrong)
Andy won. Good job Andy.
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September 21, 20101. nard
2. allude
3. stygian
4. eructation
5. zamacueca (spelled it wrong)
6. haubergeon (spelled it wrong)
7. epicede (spelled it wrong)
8. moit (spelled it wrong)
It brings you down, spelling so many words wrong in a row, and having to go up and do it again. At least I was a little witty. She defined “haubergeon” as a ‘a sleeveless coat of mail.’ “For summer wars?” I asked.
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September 14, 20101. balsam (I spelled it wrong)
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August 31, 20101. editorial
2. acquisition
3. rhododendron
4. antipodes
5. dyscalculia
6. kakorrhaphiophobia
I AM SO GOOD.
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August 24, 2010