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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Can you spell these words?

Here's just some of the words our national winner spelled:
• serrefine
• compunctious
• corrigenda
• affiche
• corinne
• rascacio
• schuhplattler
• laquear

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Cheri:
I looked at those words and thought, as long as I have your blog open and that page in front of me, I sure can spell them -- but I have no idea what any of them mean.

Spelling is a dying skill with the advent of the spell checker. With that is the loss of substantial vocabularies. Do we dumb down our writing or make people stretch? -- Mike McLellan