Sitting here watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee (not sure if it was taped prior or not… OH, it is live) but the staged musical bumpers are getting rather tiresome. Get on with the competition already! It almost seems like a televised round of golf with the commentators including Tom Bergeron (of Dancing with the Stars and America’s Funniest Home Videos (IS THAT STILL ON) fame… why?). The audience is dead silent until a comment is made. One speller very humorously attempted to spell her word and after said “DING?” indicating her belief that she mispelled the word.
The gentleman who announced the words attempted to put the spellers at ease with some of the sentences he used with the given word.
“Enough of this low-carb garbage! Bring me the palatschinken.”
There were at least two words that are types of cheese: neufchatel and caerphilly. Someone must have been hungry when they made the official list. Two the three final spellers were friends who moved away from each other and met again on the national stage.
The winning word: laodicean spelled by a young Kansas girl named Kavya.
One word prompted me to make this post: baignoire. It is derived from the French meaning either a box in the lowest level of a theatre OR a bathtub. The pronouncer failed to give the second definition. No numnah this year.
So was the “ding” girl right? Or was she right? Okay, that’s confusing but she had to be right one way or the other, right? 😛
The “ding” girl was correct when she said ding… get it?
But at least she was right!