"NUMISMATICS" Público Deposited
SPELLING BEE NIGHTMARE
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 10, March 7, 2004, Article 17
SPELLING BEE NIGHTMARE: "NUMISMATICS"
Congratulations to the recent winner of the Nevada State
Spelling Bee, who had to get past the word "numismatics"
to clinch the championship. From the March 6th Reno
Gazette-Journal:"Knowing how to spell ichthyosaur, the state fossil of Nevada
helped a 13-year-old Fallon girl to correctly spell ichthyology
? a branch of zoology that deals with fish ? Saturday to
become this year's best speller in the Silver State.Shankari Rajagopal, an eighth grader at Churchill County
Junior High School, won the Nevada State Spelling Bee held
at the University of Nevada, Reno. Before the winning word,
she also had to spell numismatics."To read the full story, see: Full Story
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