{"id":367,"date":"2009-04-29T23:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T06:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=367"},"modified":"2009-04-29T23:10:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T06:10:44","slug":"words-i-couldnt-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Words I couldn’t spell"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a lark, I signed up last weekend for the National Adult Spelling Bee<\/a>, to be held this Sunday in Long Beach. The website helpfully provides a list of words that were used in last year’s competition as well as an interactive online spelling bee with which you can practice. So far I’ve compiled a hefty list of words on which I would have failed, had I been called upon to spell them. (I note there is a difference between recognizing a word as printed and translating from the word spoken aloud to its printed form — so there are words that I could read but might not be able to spell aloud.) Let’s hope none of them make an appearance Sunday, or that I remember their proper spellings!<\/p>\n

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