Re: => 'Ursprache', 'weltschmerz', English Only?? - ROTFLMAO !! <=

[=> Vox Populi©]

"=> Vox Populi©" <v...@popu.li> wrote

> Can the Idiot Chimp G aWol Bu$h pronounce,
> much less spell, what these young schoolchildren
> acomplish? And Bush "graduated" from Yale ...?
> Bwhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaa!
>
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> 'Ursprache' beats 'weltschmerz' to win American spelling bee
> By Sam Knight
>
>
> A 13-year-old girl won America's 79th national spelling competition last
> night, trotting out the letters of "ursprache"- a German term for language -
> in front of millions of viewers on primetime television.
>
>
> Katharine Close, of New Jersey, came out on top after seven rounds of sudden
> death spelling, competitively forming words like "tmesis" (putting a word in
> another one), "izzat" (honour) and "kundalini" (life force in your spine),
> while her last surviving rival, Finola Mei Hwa Hackett, of Alberta, in Canada,
> hit back with "poiesis" (the act of making), "koine" (common language) and
> "tutoyer" (using the "tu" form of address in French) .
>
> The decisive moment, in a final that commentators thought was less emotionally
> fraught than recent years, came when Hackett stumbled over "weltschmerz"
> (world weariness), erroneously starting with a "v".
>
> Close held her nerve to render "ursprache" and later described her relief when
> the word was announced.
> "I couldn't believe it. I knew I knew how to spell the word and I was just in
> shock," said Close, a veteran of five national finals who finished in seventh
> place last year. "I couldn't believe I would win."
>
> Close became the first female winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
> since 1999, and the first ever from New Jersey. She took home $42,000
> (£22,524) in prize money.
>
> Spelling bees have enjoyed a recent explosion of popularity in America, with
> books, films and a Broadway musical all spinning off the success of
> Spellbound, a documentary that followed the finalists of the 2000 competition.
>
> ABC dropped its coverage of Miss America last summer and promoted the Spelling
> Bee to primetime for the first time.
>
> Despite the anticipation and record size of the competition - 275 spellers
> from across North America - last night's 20 rounds failed to touch the drama
> of 2004, when a young competitor called Akshay Buddiga fainted at the
> microphone before rising to make his way through "alopecoid" (foxlike).
>
> The most controversial moment last night came when Saryn Hooks, a 14-year-old
> from North Carolina, was knocked out of the competition for her spelling of
> "icteritious" (jaundiced) but was reinstated when the judges realised that she
> had in fact spelled it correctly.
>
> "I didn't know the word, and I guessed on it so I just thought I was wrong,"
> Hooks told ABC this morning. She went on to take third place.
>
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