亚省男孩儿拼写赛夺冠

大棒骨

在North America's best-known spelling bee比赛中，来自加拿大亚省的小选手最终夺魁。
; e; i! V6 _2 _+ B% u- F
; I5 \" g& O. S, G! k7 b# D来自爱城东南67公里的Tofield的小选手Finola Hackett??去年加拿大纪录的保持者，在第四轮正确拼写出"cachinnate," "kaddish" 和"bdelloid"后，一举夺冠。
. C& h* `+ _- ?) G$ R/ D6 K; ?% L
The Scripps National Spelling Bee于周三在华盛顿举行，275名选手中大多数是美国人，加拿大共有14名参赛者，年令在9到14岁。好笑的是，有些年令小的选手可能能拼出正确的字，却不知其意。

' s! I1 ^* M, u: L6 b5 u0 g有6名加拿大选手坚持到了第4轮比赛。

0 v( e- J5 Y* G4 v8 e/ n+ l7 H# z冠军Finola Hackett得到一座精美的奖杯和$42,000的现金。
, L! V( v: Y) p2 v- u( W
（小小年纪不简单，不明其意照拿奖）

板儿砖

好像是个女孩吧，妈妈还像是华裔。

Lilin

She is a girl,not a boy. What kind of report you are!

失职失职，报歉报歉。
+ C3 F5 ^) N! f( o2 O
) F0 @/ K$ i: I! [. k( ~6 C6 a[ 本帖最后由 大棒骨 于 2006-6-4 10:27 编辑 ]

降龙十八掌

原帖由 Lilin 于 2006-6-3 23:57 发表
# Q# P- I9 @0 {& u1 b5 W6 Y6 _She is a girl,not a boy. What kind of report you are!

人非圣贤......
7 B: B) j; s7 n0 z3 N; ?大棒骨是个好同志. 别打击人家的积极性.

板儿砖

Finola lives with her parents and two brothers in Tofield, Alberta, a tiny town southeast of Edmonton. “My oldest brother’s name is really hard to spell,” she says, as if bestowing on him the highest honour: “It’s T-a-d-h-g.” She also proudly spells her middle name — M-e-i H-w-a, Chinese for beautiful flower (her mom is Malaysian-Chinese, her dad Irish).
" z8 ~% x: C1 H) ]# ]  C; U5 c' w

: G7 {: i* g7 w& ^- ]: X* Y. Q

" i5 N% A3 n9 Q/ e+ I+ R3 ~Earlier in the day, Jaclyn Chang of Calgary was eliminated for stumbling on "gigerium" after spelling "strabismus" and "sortileger." Leslie Newcombe of Toronto misspelled "dhole" after getting "ersatz" right.
$ W: ^9 D# m3 l' j
) V+ b2 H" _. MAnqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe."

So many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!