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?Paralegal? Stumps National Spelling Bee Contender

By Lynne DeVenny

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There are those days when I have trouble spelling ?paralegal? myself, along with simpler words like ?blue? and my name. So I have nothing but the utmost admiration for those stellar baby spellers who make it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee. After all, I was the kid who got knocked out of my elementary school?s spelling bee by the word ?ugh?. Ugh.

An 11-year-old Beavercreek boy misspelled the word ?paralegal? during the second round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday morning, May 27.
Sawyer Krueger, son of Donna and Todd Krueger and a home-schooled fifth-grader, was one of 293 spellers at the bee ? the largest number in bee history. During his turn at the podium, he added an ?i? to the word, spelling it ?parilegal.?
The word means, ?a trained aide who assists a lawyer.?
The results of his first turn at the podium, however, may be irrelevant ? he?ll combine those results with the results of a 50-word written test that he took Tuesday and a second turn on stage Wednesday to determine whether he?ll proceed to the second day of the bee. Sawyer, a home-schooled fifth grader, is sponsored by the Dayton Daily News.

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Sawyer gets another chance, which makes this former spelling geek happy. (I weep with joy every single time I watch Akeelah and the Bee.) Because there?s simply no justice when a child?s spelling dreams are ended by the word ?ugh?.

Full post as published by Practical Paralegalism on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).