Topp speler wns prise

Posted on June 1, 2007 by andrewleigh

If you could spell serrefine, coryza, and fauchard, and are aged 13, then maybe you too could have won America’s national spelling bee championship.

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3 Responses to Topp speler wns prise

  1. Verdurous says:
    June 2, 2007 at 7:06 am

    He certainly deserves credit. Those are rather obscure words. I can’t help wondering though how much parental pressure is applied to these kids and whether it constitutes a mild form of child abuse. Are they the sociopaths or recluses of tomorrow ? Then again, we are generally accepting of sporting pressure and perhaps this is no different to waking kids at 5 am every day to do laps in the pool.

  2. christine says:
    June 5, 2007 at 12:45 am

    I can still remember when I was competing for the title of top speller in my grade 4 class. I and the other contender (later to achieve infamy as the head of the jury in the trial of a former Qld Premier, I believe) would compare notes after every spelling test to see who’d won. There was thus no external recognition or pressure. All year we were neck and neck, on 100%. Then I spelled ‘necessary’ ‘nessessary’. He got it right. I was devastated.

  3. Russell says:
    June 5, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    I suppose most people will have seen it, but I loved the documentary Spellbound http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/reviews/review.php?id=263
    anyone who hasn’t seen it would be surprised that a movie about a spelling competition could be so rivetting (or riveting)

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