The winning word of this year’s National Spelling Bee

June 2, 2005 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 3 comments
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Appoggiatura

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

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  1. Robert Thornton says:
    June 2, 2005 at 5:22 pm

    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.

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  2. Paul Rex says:
    June 3, 2005 at 11:20 am

    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”.

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  3. Robert Thornton says:
    June 5, 2005 at 9:11 pm

    Mr. Rex,

    Your possibility is more probable than either of mine.

    Robert Thornton

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