All fun aside, 'it was hard': Runners-up recount pressure All But Toronto Edition 1

Fun aside, there was a lot of stress heading into the national competition, [Regina Kaleb Adam] admitted. "It was hard compared to just your buddies around school," he said. Kaleb was seventh among the 22 competitors to be eliminated when he misspelled polemology, the study of war, in the...

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Published inNational post (Toronto)
Main Author Janet French, Natasha Botha, Craig Pearson and Barb Pacholik
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Don Mills, Ont Postmedia Network Inc 18.04.2005
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Adam, Regina Kaleb
Competition
Friesen, Magdalene
Ho, Edwin
Spelling bees
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Summary:Fun aside, there was a lot of stress heading into the national competition, [Regina Kaleb Adam] admitted. "It was hard compared to just your buddies around school," he said. Kaleb was seventh among the 22 competitors to be eliminated when he misspelled polemology, the study of war, in the fifth round. The stiff competition went to 30 rounds. Kaleb plans to brush up on his spelling before heading to the international spelling bee in Washington, D.C., next month. As a regional winner, he qualified for the U.S. competition. Black & White Photo: Jana Chytilova, CanWest / [Edwin Ho] of Toronto, runner-up in the CanSpell competition.
ISSN:1486-8008