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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Orthography</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Uh-oh! "Orthography" coming out of the woodwork again ...<br><br>For the information of those of you that are not familiar with this American institution,
a “spelling bee” is a spelling contest for primary and secondary students.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Below is an article published by MSNBC today (<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37496186/ns/us_news-life/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37496186/ns/us_news-life/</a>).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I particularly enjoyed the part about bee costumes.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Seattle, USA</span></p>
<h1>Spelling bee protesters? Believe it</h1>
<h2>Demonstrators want English language spelling simplified</h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">By LAUREN SAUSSER</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associated Press</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>WASHINGTON - The nation’s capital always
draws its share of protesters, picketing for causes ranging from health care
reform to immigration policy.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>But spelling bee protesters? They’re
out here, too.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>Four peaceful protesters, some
dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American
Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the
Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held. Their
message was short: Simplify the way we spell words.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack">Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va.
elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of
the population from learning how to read, write and spell.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>“Our alphabet has 425-plus ways
of putting words together in illogical ways,” Mahoney said.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>The protesting cohort distributed
pins to willing passers-by with their logo, “Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much.”</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>According to literature
distributed by the group, it makes more sense for “fruit” to be spelled as “froot,”
“slow” should be “slo,” and “heifer” — a word spelled correctly during the
first oral round of the bee Thursday by Texas
competitor Ramesh Ghanta — should be “hefer.”</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>Meanwhile, inside the hotel’s
Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of the language
in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and
biauriculate.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack">While the protesters could make headway with cell phone
texters who routinely swap “u” for “you” and “gr8” for “great,” their message
may be a harder sell for the Scripps crowd.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>Mahoney had trouble gaining
traction with at least one bee attendee. New
Mexico resident Matthew Evans, 15, a former speller
whose sister is participating in the bee this year, reasoned with her that if
English spellings were changed, spelling bees would cease to exist.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>“If a dictionary lists ‘enough’
as ‘enuf,’ the spelling bee goes by the dictionary, therefore all the spelling
words are easier to spell, so the spelling bee is gone,” Evans said.</p>
<p class="textbodyblack"><span id="byLine"></span>“Well,” Mahoney replied, “they
could pick their own dictionary.”</p>
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