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Group Objects to Words of Foreign Origin in National Spelling Bee |
| Published: June 2, 2006, 6:00 am |
| Tags: education, entertainment, family, games, television |
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During this year's national spell-off, contestants were forced to puzzle out words of Spanish, Greek, Latin American, homosexual, even French origin. Now some native-born bee watchers say they've had enough. If they get their way, spelling bees from elementary schools to the nation's capital will soon be conducted in English only. 75% of Americans say foreign words are too difficult to spell By Deanna Swift, WASHINGTON, DC Unlike millions of Americans, Lorraine Dittie didn't wait to watch the coronation of Katharine Close, this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee champion. Dittie, a Dover, PA, mother of two, had turned off her TV in disgust in the fourth round of the annual spell-off after contestant David Keyes of Watkins Glenn, NY, successfully sounded out sudadero, a Spanish word meaning a blanket that soaks up the sweat beneath the saddle of a horse. For Dittie, the surfeit (s r'fit; a word of French origin meaning excessive amount) of foreign words in this year's [ Full article ] |
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