Saturday, June 9, 2012

And Speaking of the Scripps National Spelling Bee

Here are some winning words of years gone by.

1925: gladiolus
1926: abrogate
1931: foulard
1934: deteriorating
1939: canonical
1942: sacrilegious
1943-45: No spelling bee due to World War II
1946: semaphore
1950: meticulosity
1953: soubrette
1960: eudaemonic
1961: smaragdine
1962: esquamulose
1971: shalloon
1979: maculature
1980: elucubrate
1986: odontalgia
1988: elegiacal
1995: xanthosis
1998: chiaroscurist
2001: succedaneum
2005: appoggiatura
2012: guetapens

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