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The winning word of this year’s National Spelling Bee

Appoggiatura

I hope the winner knew it from taking music classes and not from rote memorization.

Posted 06.02.2005
by Aristotle Esguerra
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3 Comments

Perhaps the winner knows it neither from music classes nor from rote memorization—not that either is a bad thing—but rather from from wide and well-informed personal reading. Or perhaps wee little factlets cling to his or her brain like lint to a black sweater in the winter.


Robert Thornton
06.02.2005 @ 5:22 pm #

Another possibility - the vague recognition of this word as originating in the Italian language, and a basic understanding of the phonetic sounds comprising the words would have given the speller a good shot at the correct spelling of “appoggiatura”.


Paul Rex
06.03.2005 @ 11:20 am #

Mr. Rex,

Your possibility is more probable than either of mine.

Robert Thornton


Robert Thornton
06.05.2005 @ 9:11 pm #

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