Insessorial, Nemathelminth, Mycetophagous, ...

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National Spelling Bee Enters Final Rounds

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[DrJavaJoe]

Mycetophagous does not show up on dictionary.com and none of these words are in the MS Word dictionary.


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[ToniL]

A 13 year old boy who spells better than I do... That's encouraging... Thanks, CC, you've made my day...

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[SF0751]

All of the spelling bee words can be found in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, according to the National Spelling Bee website.

Susan
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[sleipnir214]

I think I could have spelled "insessorial" and maybe "mycetaphagous" if told what the word meant. But these kids are demonstrating abilities in spelling far beyond mine.

As an addendum, an eigth-grade boy has won the competition:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=814185

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[johnwm]

I would have spelt it 'mycetophagous' and would have guessed it was a fungus-eater

myceto - relating to fungus
phagous - related to eating (as in hippophagous - one who eats horsemeat)

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[sleipnir214]

johnwm:
See? Now you know why I never participated in any spelling bees.


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[Onyxpurr]

Yes, just think, if we had applied ourselves we could've been famous, rich spelling masters. Oh wait...

 

[tsdragon]

Just for fun, I did a google search for "mycetophagous". The very first reference returned was THIS PAGE.

Stupidly, the third reference was titled: Definition of mycetophagous - WordReference.com Dictionary. But when I went there (and killed the popup ad) this is what I got: "We found no translation for 'mycetophagous' in our English Dictionary".

Doesn't that strike you as being completely counterproductive? If I'm searching for a word, I certainly don't want a link that tells me that don't know what the word means!!!

I guess this is one case where google fails to do its' job properly.



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