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Old 06-04-2010, 08:13 PM   #1
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Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell.

"Our alphabet has 425-plus ways of putting words together in illogical ways," Mahoney said.

The protesting cohort distributed pins to willing passers-by with their logo, "Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much."

According to literature distributed by the group, it makes more sense for "fruit" to be spelled as "froot," "slow" should be "slo," and "heifer" — a word spelled correctly during the first oral round of the bee Thursday by Texas competitor Ramesh Ghanta — should be "hefer."
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what is the world coming to? people seem to be getting dumber by the minute

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Old 06-04-2010, 08:18 PM   #3
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LOL, I was expecting another article in relation to immigration laws

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Wow, that is funny - yet scary. I mean double-plus scary
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it's b/c people are becoming to lazy to actually teach and get kids to learn.
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I admit, I used to think I had a broad vocabulary but after seeing some of those 10-13 year old kids rattle off a lot of words I've never even heard of...
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I admit, I used to think I had a broad vocabulary but after seeing some of those 10-13 year old kids rattle off a lot of words I've never even heard of...
Meh, I'd rather have a childhood.
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Don't you mean

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I admit, I used to think I had a broad vocabulary but after seeing some of those 10-13 year old kids rattle off a lot of words I've never even heard of...
I believe a greater emphasis is placed on the etymology of words, rather than their respective definitions. Once you understand the etymology of a word, one increases their likelihood of spelling that word correctly, which is why participants ask for the definition and origin of each word.
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thus is why most Southern schools have the worst education in the country.
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