Northwood, N.D., boy carries state hopes in National Spelling Bee
May 29, 2012 at 6:00 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Ty Korsmo of Northwood can say the alphabet backwards in four seconds, but North Dakota’s champion speller probably won’t have to do that this week as he competes in the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Continue Reading
The word is actually found in the song “We’re Going to a Hookilao.”
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I’ve noticed over the last few years they are adding foreign words into the contest. One kid from New Jersey got eliminated with “lefse.” You’d think with the huge vocabulary of the English language with all the screwy spellings, they could stick with that language’s word-stock.
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Ever notice it’s the home-schooled kids that own the spelling bees?
Too busy getting self-esteem lessons in Public school, I guess. Maybe they need more public-school counselors.
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Public schools have dumped rote learning, which is key to spelling, arithmetic, science. The purpose now is to make school “fun.”
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