Champagne .
That ’s the intelligence that spell my downfall in the 1989 Lakeview Elementary Spelling Bee . Some say my ignorance of alcoholic drink should have been celebrated , not punished . OK , nobody say that . I take over by now , 4th graders are spelling words like Chlamydia and menage a trois .
I ’ve sat stationery these last 17 years , knowing there are four better spellers than me . In Denville , New Jersey . carry around 1979 . Who attended public schoolhouse . And were n’t unhinged during the preliminary . I can accept that . But if I were oblige to justify my intelligence agency , I could always turn to the prosperous grownup spelling circuit .
Perhaps the most famous competition is Brooklyn ’s Williamsburg Spelling Bee , held every other Monday atPete ’s Candy Store . So famous , in fact , they even have ablog . host Jennifer Dziura and Bobby Blue are a piddling more lenient than our level school Language Arts teachers . You get three work stoppage before you ’re out . And while I ’m not sure alcohol amend spelling prowess , the liquid braveness increment turnout . ( If you ’re a TimesSelect appendage , you could read theirThursday Styles profilefrom last year . )
In increase to providing grown - ups an opportunity for redemption , adult bees have also been successful fundraisers . In Maplewood , NJ,$17,000 was raisedto fund a tutoring plan that had been thin out by the schooling dominion . Want to hold your own ? Scripps Howard has posted"official " grownup spelling bee rule .
