On 01/06/2013 7:32 PM, gloria p wrote:

>>
>> I agree. That just ain't right. When I checked I saw that there were
>> variations of the English<?> spelling and that there are German and
>> English words for the same thing.... Gnodel and noodle.
>> I do a lot of crosswords and am finding increasing numbers of
>> non-English words in them. Nothing against Yiddish or any other
>> language, but word games and spelling bees should stick to one language.
>>
>
>
> I've been thinking that when I've seen the past few years' Nat'l Bee
> words. I've finally realized that because these kids are so good (and
> so practiced and well-trained), the strange words are there to weed out
> kids or the Bee would be six months-long.
>
>

That may be, but the fact remains that a spelling contest should stick
to one language.

But what the heck... Americans have their own language. They don't know
how to spell colour or neighbour and they don't even know the name of
the last letter in the English alphabet. ;-)