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。

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。
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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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3 N- G! D+ R4 K( ?有6名加拿大选手坚持到了第4轮比赛。
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4 L( K4 t2 m) P% ?冠军Finola Hackett得到一座精美的奖杯和$42,000的现金。
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1 [. K9 j0 P1 Y  h（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。

[ 本帖最后由 大棒骨 于 2006-6-4 10:27 编辑 ]

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原帖由 Lilin 于 2006-6-3 23:57 发表
! R; p) X$ p. [5 X" l0 ?She is a girl,not a boy. What kind of report you are!

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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.

- ]1 @) K/ s5 O* W; 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!