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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). & G+ s. j% r- w4 {; Q5 @
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1 M$ g# ]9 r7 Y! R! ~7 t" W# mEarlier 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. 1 \2 v1 R. b2 M8 z' q& L
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Anqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe." 5 L+ T$ ]5 D) J) {# Y
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