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TCU is Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. The school colors are purple and white.
The school mascot is the horned frog.

In March 2013, TCU 25 youngsters from 18 North Texas school districts competed in the TCU College of Education
Regional Spelling Bee. I have a warm spot in my heart for spelling bees since I used to win them quite regularly
in school.

Although the spelling bee may have used more than the 50 words listed below, they only published these 50 in the
TCU magazine. I'm not a TCU alum, but I read a recent issue and found this article.

The following words are not alphabetized. I am transcribing them straight from the article.

ambiguity gazpacho synergy salmonella abdicate kabuki blithe eponym insidious cadenza

equipoise knish saffron croissant springerle recalcitrant zucchini guillotine punctilio hypocrisy

wiccan misogynist ameliorate hyperbole glockenspiel recidivist ecocene fahrenheit capricious charlatan

sauerbraten saboteur embarcadero blase serendipity edelweiss jacamar alkali balalaika pogrom

fete detente vaquero prosciutto melange tchotchke hartebeest lieutenant tomography reconcilable.

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The winner was a 12 year BOY from Keller, Texas (near Fort Worth). HIS name was Ansun Sujoe.

She clinched the title by spelling "eschewal" correctly.

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TAM - This may be up your alley. Anyone else - feel free to comment.

Moderators - Please move this to "Off Topic". I was parked in "Crime Blotter" by mistake.

SIA

No, I think it should stay in crime blotter. It's a crime that she can spell more of those words than I can.

I'd be lucky to spell TCU correctly.

Now class, use all those words in a sentence.

Wodathunkit wrote:Now class, use all those words in a sentence.

Ambiguity, gazpacho, synergy, salmonella, abdicate, kabuki, blithe, eponym, insidious, cadenza, equipoise, knish, saffron, croissant, springerle, recalcitrant, zucchini, guillotine, punctilio, hypocrisy, wiccan, misogynist, ameliorate, hyperbole, glockenspiel, recidivist, ecocene, fahrenheit, capricious, charlatan, sauerbraten, saboteur, embarcadero, blase, serendipity, edelweiss, jacamar, alkali, alalaika, pogrom, fete, detente, vaquero, prosciutto, melange, tchotchke, hartebeest, lieutenant, tomography, and reconcilable are tough words to spell.

There

jimlongley wrote:

Wodathunkit wrote:Now class, use all those words in a sentence.

Ambiguity, gazpacho, synergy, salmonella, abdicate, kabuki, blithe, eponym, insidious, cadenza, equipoise, knish, saffron, croissant, springerle, recalcitrant, zucchini, guillotine, punctilio, hypocrisy, wiccan, misogynist, ameliorate, hyperbole, glockenspiel, recidivist, ecocene, fahrenheit, capricious, charlatan, sauerbraten, saboteur, embarcadero, blase, serendipity, edelweiss, jacamar, alkali, alalaika, pogrom, fete, detente, vaquero, prosciutto, melange, tchotchke, hartebeest, lieutenant, tomography, and reconcilable are tough words to spell.

There

Lol! I to you sir!

Wodathunkit wrote:Now class, use all those words in seperate sentences.

There, fixed it.

Let's see how bored someone is.

RX8er wrote:

Wodathunkit wrote:Now class, use all those words in seperate sentences.

There, fixed it.

Let's see how bored someone is.

No where near that bored. Don't think I've ever been that bored.

Ummm- - - huked on fonix rilly heped me. My spell checker can't spell half those words.

Ooh, some rough ones in there. I might be able to correctly spell 2/3 - 3/4 of them, but probably closer to 2/3.

C-dub wrote:Ooh, some rough ones in there. I might be able to correctly spell 2/3 - 3/4 of them, but probably closer to 2/3.

Not sure I can correctly pronounce that many of them

RX8er wrote:

Wodathunkit wrote:Now class, use all those words in seperate sentences.

There, fixed it.

Let's see how bored someone is.

iswydt

Eye kin speil reel gud!

Anyone find it odd that the word Phonics cannot be spelled using phonetics?

This is one of the few subjects in which I'll utterly destroy the majority of the world Too bad I suck at most everything else...

canvasbck wrote:Eye kin speil reel gud!

Anyone find it odd that the word Phonics cannot be spelled using phonetics?

Yes it can.

Phonetics.

An Evening on the Town,
or,
an attempt to use lots of words in sensible sentences, meaning I have too much time on my hands today.

The chef’s ambiguity about gazpacho led to a lack of synergy between the soup course and the rest of the meal, which resulted in long delays between courses and a significant risk of salmonella from the raw egg based dessert, so we decided to abdicate.

The Kabuki theater (an eponym) we were so blithe, as to decamp to, was crowded beyond belief, forcing us to be seated next to an insidious credenza, and as an amateurish cadenza was started by the marginally competent Samisen player, we departed again.

Although we did not agree entirely on the next place to go, an equipoise was reached when we found a small restaurant that showed knish, saffron, croissant, and springerle on the menu.

The most recalcitrant member of our little party became enchanted with the cook’s machine for slicing zucchini, which appeared to be based on a guillotine.

Our friend, enchanted with the cook and her technique decided to stay and observing a ritualistic punctilio wished us a good evening as we departed after our repast, even as we pointed out his hypocrisy as a wiccan misogynist in even attempting to date the lady in question, but our efforts to ameliorate the situation with our hyperbole may just as well have been a minor tune from a glockenspiel for all the good it did.

Our friend was a recidivist, having survived relationships such as this since before the Eocene era at least, convincing us, once again, that some people just have to try the same thing over and over no matter how often they fail, kind of like anti-gun nuts.

As we walked, we discussed whether the use of Fahrenheit as a standard was capricious and the group’s preeminent charlatan held forth at great length in defense of the arbitrary measurement scale.

One of our members expressed a dislike for sauerbraten as she understood that some saboteur had slipped meat into all the recipes for it, and she would not be convinced that she was confusing it with sauerkraut.

As we strolled up the embarcadero our collective attitude became blasé and it was only by pure serendipity that we spotted the small tramp steamer with its cargo of edelweiss, various jacamars, and alkali, which discovery generated great excitement and speculation about the places the steamer had been.

Our most senior member had been a balalaika player before a pogrom during a Ukrainian fete forced him to flee to Argentina where the expatriates recognized each other by the détentes that they wore.

Here he became a vaquero and also quite skilled at making a local version of prosciutto based on a mélange of meats.

After a crippling fall he supported himself by carving tchotchkes out of hartebeest horns that a friend of his, a lieutenant in the Argentine Navy smuggled to him.

He also claimed he became involved in the development of tomography, moving to upstate NY to work on that project, a boast not easily reconcilable with the rest of his claimed background.

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Only about a half hour invested.