Question: Are You A Decent Speller?

Issue: Home-schooler wins regional spelling bee: Seventh-grader will move on to national competition /John Stucke, Spokesman-Review

Mommy Dearest /BrodH20: If only macrame had been my word. When I was in elementary school, I was a spelling bee champ. I smoked the classroom competition and the district contest and then — at regionals — I was eliminated on the word judicious. I sounded it out and put an “sh” where the c should have gone. It was a foreign word for me. Judicious. As a third-grader, I don’t think I’d ever heard that word used in conversation. But macrame? Macrame was certainly part of my vocabulary. For rest of post, click here .

Question: Are you a decent speller?