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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).
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4 l8 f0 u- q1 f' eEarlier 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. / `! ^* H) e7 m
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Anqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe." 5 V0 i l) c* F: m6 o' P& _" ^) @
; q9 [6 c+ I: b. b& ESo many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!  |
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