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October 19, 2013 – 8:42 pm

It’s Oysterfest weekend in Wellfleet once again, and your humble correspondent has reclaimed his crown at the annual Spelling Bee. I realize that by now most of you have likely already heard — I’m sure it’s all over the national media — but I thought the rest of you would like to know.

Posted by Malcolm on at 8:42 pm, filed under Cape Cod. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

8 Comments

  1. Kevin Kim says

    Congrats! What was your winning word?

    Posted October 19, 2013 at 10:47 pm | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    “Chondrophore”. It’s the little cavity that supports the cartilage in the hinge of a bivalve. The guy in second had just tripped over “siliceous”.

    Posted October 19, 2013 at 11:03 pm | Permalink
  3. Kevin Kim says

    I assume that’s pronounced “KAAN-druh-FOR.” How’s the other one pronounced? “Suh-LEE-see-uhss”? “Suh-LISH-uhss,” like “delicious”?

    English is obviously too easy for you. They need to host a spelling bee in honor of Tolkien. All the words will be in the romanized versions of Quenya and the Black Speech of Mordor. Diacritical marks must be mentioned when spelling the words.

    Do you think, when you entered the contest, that your fellow contestants started grumbling, “Christ, it’s that Malcolm guy again!”?

    Posted October 19, 2013 at 11:53 pm | Permalink
  4. Malcolm says

    Do you think, when you entered the contest, that your fellow contestants started grumbling, “Christ, it’s that Malcolm guy again!”?

    At this point, they may be doing just that, and I’ll confess that troubles me. (Though the Conan in me — that’s the barbarian, not the talk-show host — says “let them grumble!”)

    Maybe I’ll give myself a bye next year.

    Posted October 20, 2013 at 10:54 am | Permalink
  5. the one eyed man says

    A glorious victory. Congratulations!

    Posted October 20, 2013 at 12:58 pm | Permalink
  6. Horace Jeffery Hodges says

    The news is big here in Soul, Corea.

    Jeffery Hodges

    * * *

    Posted October 20, 2013 at 3:29 pm | Permalink
  7. David Duff says

    Dam! That Jef ‘Odges pinshed my joke furst!

    Posted October 22, 2013 at 1:44 pm | Permalink
  8. TheBigHenry says

    HJH,

    “Chick” Corea may have brought jazz (and soul?) south of the 38th, but there is no Seoul in the north.

    Posted October 22, 2013 at 6:23 pm | Permalink

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