Last night I watched the National Spelling Bee championship on television. It was soooo cool! Those kids are amazing. I tried spelling along with them on many words and I don't know if I got two of them right. Probably not... but maybe.

13 year old Kerry Close came away with the 1st place trophy by spelling the word "Ursprache".  URSPRACHE?!? Come on! What the heck is that? If you look up the definition at dictionary.com, it just says "see  protolanguage". OK, so then you see protolanguage and here's what you get "A language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages." In other words, English is the protolanguage (or ursprache) of the language spoken at national spelling bees. Ha!

At any rate, I hope you got to catch some of the show. It was very entertaining. And if you're like me (a big word nerd), you were sitting at home, cheering and applauding with every letter. Especially when 14 year old Saryn Hooks was let back into the compitition after being dismissed for supposedly spelling a word wrong. As it turned out, the judges had the wrong spelling and Saryn was correct! Talk about high drama! Yowsa! In the end though, Saryn placed third behind second place finisher Finola Hackett, 14, of Alberta, Canada. And of course, the champ, Kerry Close.

Congrats to all who participated! Can't wait for next year!

Now it's your turn! There is one word in this blog entry that is misspelled. Can you find it? Look closely. When you see it, shout out "I'm awesome!" and then leave us a comment saying which word it is and how awesome you are.