When you’re in a spelling bee and you miss a word, you never forget the word you missed and the proper spelling of it. Ever.
7th grade: ophthalmologist (yeah i don’t know what the fuck that L is doing there either) and then, because the other girl didn’t get the next one, rhesus (as in the monkey).My word in 5th grade was “artichoke.”
My 2nd grade word was “mummify” and my 5th grade word was “rankle.”
I added an “F” to the first word and transposed the “L” and “E” in the second.
Third grade: “Army” Yeah.
Sixth grade: bibliophile.
You’d think I’d be able to spell my own proclivity.
Seventh grade: Assyrian.
8th grade (city-wide - i came in 3rd out of about 40 - YEAH): irascibility. weirdly, from the definition i was able to guess the silent C, but i still started it with an E. latin fail.
5th grade city-wide spelling bee: commercial. I spelled it comercial and my mother blamed the fact that I’m bilingual and English was totally not my first language. I say blamed because even though she said it jokingly, I could tell from the look she gave that it was NOT a joke and I was a failure for losing on an easy word like commercial.
