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。

, ]8 e3 z( O: X% Y) t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。

8 t# `% O6 u$ W3 x# |) f- E1 nThe 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。
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! P) R  E: e- \: d有6名加拿大选手坚持到了第4轮比赛。
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  T; T, x, A9 c* N3 q: Z: l8 F冠军Finola Hackett得到一座精美的奖杯和$42,000的现金。

* e5 d0 c8 @) [, J（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。
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7 Y, e, T$ h! L4 [/ [" c7 L[ 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
She is a girl,not a boy. What kind of report you are!

4 ~$ Y& }9 f' D5 |人非圣贤......
. [, I/ g9 B% Z) a7 a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).
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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.

. y8 ]9 L; P: \8 ?7 dAnqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe."

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$ _- K: g7 R6 e3 LSo many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!