Our daughter MilliCal was in a Spelling Bee!
She made it through three rounds, only to be tripped up by the word “Calendar” She said “E” instead of the second “A”. I suspect she’d have seen that if she was writing it, but mentally I can see the attraction of using an “E” there.
Too bad – she’s a really good speller and writer.
Congrats!
And she’ll never forget how to spell it now – let’s just hope she doesn’t run into the problem I do, which is a strong desire to spell “lavender” with a second a, because that’s how “calendar” is.
Yay for MilliCal!
I have that same problem, which is why I was never confident enough to participate in a spelling bee. I’m a really good speller (and now I’ll have a typo in my post) but I need to write the word out, or I stumble. Would I be allowed to sketch the word in the air at a spelling bee?
Conversely, had I been a judge, she might have made it through anywya - I always put an ‘e’ in. I also have trouble with editor.
A lot of of the kids spell out words on their hands so I don’t see why not.
My sister came >this close< to going to Washington D.C. It was down to her and a boy in the regional bee when she got the word sherbet. She spelled it sherbert, which is the way we had always pronounced it, though probably not the way the announcer had. She got a huge dictionary as a consolation prize.
Congratulations to MilliCal. Will she still be young enough to try again next year?
Yay for MilliCal!
I can’t spell that particular word with any degree of consistency. I blame the fact that there’s a town called Callendar or Callander or Callandar or Callender or somesuch* and I confuse the two.
*I can never spell that properly either. I know it has two L’s though!
You know, if she had asked for a definition, she might have been right. There really is such a word as “calender.” It’s a machine of some kind, with rollers, for smoothing paper or cloth.