musical theater was a mistake because Spelling Bee really got me hearing normal ass words and thinking "wow just like in spelling bee"
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you dont ALLOW miette? you dont have miette in word list? oh! oh! jail for nyt games! jail for nyt games for One Thousand Years!!!!!
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He’s a ten but his unfortunate erection is destroying his perfection. (Yes this is from a real Broadway Musical)
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Give it up for Leaf Coneybear, who *probably* has not eaten paste before!
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How old was Noelle when Dess Holiday disappeared?
One day I decided to answer this question by searching for Spelling Bee’s with the word “December” in them to estimate what grade/how old Noelle was when Dess disappeared, and it made me feel like Noelle goddamn Holiday searching for Dess. (I kept getting Spelling Bee’s IN December.)
But I found a few spelling bees that had December in them. Here’s what I found in my research.
Archdiocesan Spelling Bee Word List:
3rd to 4th grade. (8-10 years old)
Scripps National Spelling Bee:
3rd grade in the One Bee category. (8-9 years old)
2021 Words of the Champions:
One Bee. (The other spelling bee says one bee is between grades 1-3. Seeing as that one lists December as third grade, it's safe to assume it's third grade in this one.)
5th Grade Summer Enrichment Activity
5th grade (10-11 years old)
Summary:
Assuming the Spelling Bee was shortly after December disappeared, Noelle would be somewhere between the 3rd and 5th grades when Dess disappeared. (So, 8 to 11 years old.)
(If the links ever die I put wayback machine alternatives under "the "keep reading" line for most of the links.)
Archdiocesan Spelling Bee Word List.
Scripps National Spelling Bee:
2021 Words of the Champions:
5th Grade Summer Enrichment Activity
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Are "spelling bee's"—as we were taught by Author and Charlie Brown to be understood as being—still a thing? I feel like they could be more compelling if there was more variety to the challenge then just saying a word and waiting for a kid to spell it. There could be things like: "In British-English, spell cheque," or: "How many 'e's' are in 'arguments?'" More advanced competitons could even introduce phonetic spelling bee challenges as well...I suppose it starts to sound like more of a game show, which might trivialize the competition in the eys of parents & educators...To that I refer back to "Where In The World Is Carmen San-Diego?" —A game show that took seriously multiple fields of study: geography, geopolitics, history, etc...So yeah, make spelling bees a game show. That might actually be all that's needed to revive America's public interest in them...
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im just saying that olive ostrovsky & rona lisa peretti are literally matilda & miss honey
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