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Friday, May 30, 2008

"ROUND FIVE: It begins with #5 So-Young Chung shyly approaching the microphone as if it were a guillontine..."

"... with BBC Bailly saying "howdy, So-Young!" to her like they are at a Texas BBQ instead of the greatest spelling competition EVER, with So-Young thinking and pronouncing and pronouncing and thinking and asking for the definition over and over again. It's painful. It's polite. It's so very elegant. And it ends with So-Young spelling "chrysoprase" (an apple green variety of something valued as a gem) all wrong. So-Young's whispered thanks upon hearing the dreaded ding...heartbreaking."

The best Spelling Bee coverage ever continues at Throwing Things.

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