"Are there any alternate pronouncations?"

"Can you use the word in a sentence?"

I do not know why ESPN televises the national spelling bee every year. This event is worst than the Miss Universe stuff. Instead of having hot models on stage, you get a bunch of 6th grade Harry Potter clones.

I am amazed by the prize money these kids can win. Who would pay a kid for being able to spell words like 'farfaloines*' and 'kwigbol*'? What happens to the second place finisher when kids at school make fun of him because he thought that 'kwyelosh*' was spelled with an i instead of a y?

You know what most spelling bee champions become? Nerds who work for Scrabble and Websters.

(* = not real word)