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Hil R. - May 31, 2007 10:49:05 am PDT #219 of 10001

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I lost the spelling bee in fourth grade on "kindergarten." (Well, got second place.) In seventh grade, I got to the regional round and then lost on "pigeon."

Huh. The dictionary gives "alright" as "non-standard usage." I've seen it used that way plenty of times.

Fred Pete - May 31, 2007 10:51:33 am PDT #220 of 10001

Ann, that's a ferret.

In sixth grade, I lost on "granary." Seventh grade was really weird -- I originally finished third on "hundredths" because the word was spelled wrong on the answer key. After a big fuss (led by one of the English teachers), the top 3 got a do-over. That time I won.

aurelia - May 31, 2007 10:53:16 am PDT #221 of 10001

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Now I want "phonetic" to be one of the spelling words.

On the lj thing, was there ever a post announcing the mass suspensions?

DavidS - May 31, 2007 10:53:33 am PDT #222 of 10001

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Did he spell it S-N-O-O-P-Y?

I think it was B-e-a-g-e-l.

Lucy called him a blockhead.

Dana - May 31, 2007 11:00:20 am PDT #223 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

On the lj thing, was there ever a post announcing the mass suspensions?

Nope. Just poof, gone.

Aims - May 31, 2007 11:00:24 am PDT #224 of 10001

Shit's all sorts of different now.

I lost the 6th grade spelling bee on "Surprise". I spelled it with a "z".

Scrappy - May 31, 2007 11:05:44 am PDT #225 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

In 5th grade I lost on "restaurant." I've never spelled that word wrong since.

Daisy Jane - May 31, 2007 11:06:19 am PDT #226 of 10001

"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

I always spell it wrong. I mostly avoid using it while writing.

Hil R. - May 31, 2007 11:08:39 am PDT #227 of 10001

Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The other person from my school got out of the seventh-grade bee on "restaurateur."

amych - May 31, 2007 11:14:16 am PDT #228 of 10001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

4th grade, "Massachusetts" (I swapped the double-S near the beginning and the single-S in the middle. And I was freakin' BORN THERE!)

It's too bad you can't generalize from that incredibly clear memory of the one word you spelled wrong that one time to correct all those other words you keep spelling wrong even now. (And by "you", I mean "me".)

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