May 30, 2007
Catch The Spelling Bee Before The Philadelphia Contestant Is Eliminated! Oh, Too Late.
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If you were tuning in hoping to see Philadelphia's lone contestant, Fahmida Sarmin (representing the Philadelphia Tribune), you're out of luck. No word on how Sarmin did on the written portion of the test, but on her lone oral word she spelled "privilege" incorrectly and didn't qualify for the third round.
It was a bit of a lost cause, anyway. Not to knock Sarmin, but she was the contestant from Philadelphia. I'm surprised lightning didn't hit her on her way into the competition room.
But it looks like Philadelphia's circle of losing extends even outside the city limits. The contestant representing the Intelligencer (Doylestown) spelled garbled "garbbled," the Express-Times (Easton) contestant spelled notarize "notorize." Meanwhile, the person representing the Pottstown paper got the word bonbon in Round 2. Three Pennsylvania contestants advanced to Round 3, including Micah Walter from the West Chester Daily Local.
On the plus side, I decided against my original idea to spell a bunch of words in this post wrong. Now all the errors are my own stupid mistakes!
A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago
Posted by D-Mac on May 30, 2007 03:05 PM
Posted to Making Fun Of Kids
, National Spelling Bee
, Philly Self-Loathing
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Comments
Down to Wilkes-Barre
Posted by: Dave at May 30, 2007 07:07 PM
And Pennsylvania is done.
Posted by: Dave at May 31, 2007 02:24 PM
And Harrisburg is gone now, so down to two.
Posted by: Dave at May 30, 2007 04:19 PM