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Default National Spelling bee winning word: "knaidel"

On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 19:34:36 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:
> >

>
> 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. ;-)


If you're talking about zed - as the line in A New Leaf (Walter
Matthau & Elaine May) goes: “You have managed to keep traditions alive
that were dead before you were born.”

Others say it's not zee or zed, it's "zey".

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