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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). : Y {% @: q* ?1 g
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5 U: n1 I; L( [% z7 d1 W! zEarlier 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. & i0 r" e% ]7 \2 L- V: m
6 o4 n. l. s1 _7 x. SAnqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe."
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So many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!  |
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