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。
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. E- t, D: k. g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。

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。
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- _6 S( U7 }& N+ y% ^5 l6 z有6名加拿大选手坚持到了第4轮比赛。
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* [' T0 ]( E. U  ~3 y( q. J+ f2 V冠军Finola Hackett得到一座精美的奖杯和$42,000的现金。
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  [3 F; b3 Y# o! m. b$ K（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!
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失职失职，报歉报歉。

! a1 F/ y5 [; D0 V[ 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
2 l+ c; G" n; ?1 B2 U" |She is a girl,not a boy. What kind of report you are!

人非圣贤......
, {+ p' Y, T* v  X. N  Y& c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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/ g! Q1 @$ ?7 e; v% l( _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.
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$ Q6 c: ~. }  [4 zAnqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe."

; _  e! \2 W* @6 xSo many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!