I doubt anyone gets into this as much as I do, but the national spelling bee is really grabbing my interest! Check out this photo from when Samir Patel of Colleyville, considered the favorite to win, was knocked out in the fifth round:
Poor Samir! He went out on clevis, spelling it clevice. "The first thing I thought was clevis, and if I had been slow and cautious like I always am, I would have got it right," he said.
What is a clevis, you ask? According to Wikipedia (and we all know how reliable that is), it's a "fastener that will allow rotation of the connected parts about the axis of the pin."
There's still something to be happy about - Amy Chyao of Richardson, sponsored by The Dallas Morning News, is one of the top 15 and will compete in the finals tonight at 7.
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Watching Amy get bounced tonight was painful. I can't recall the exact word, but it was something like "asdlakjreawlnvaskhjoaewriawejflkj."
Which is Latin, I think.