Host: RENEE down for everyone or just for me MONTAGNE
Interview: Jacques Bailey of the is it down or just me Scripps Countrywide Spelling Bee speaks about how words are selected [DP]RENEE down for all or just me MONTAGNE
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Interview: Jacques Bailey of is it down for everyone the Scripps Countrywide Spelling Bee speaks about how words are selected [DP]
Time: 11:00 down or is it just me AM-12:00 Midday
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
Standing on a stage and pronouncing weird words may be outright emetic. Which means it may cause you to prefer to toss up. Seventh-grader Dominic Ranz Errazo publicly stated he was frightened but he dealt with to spell emetic appropriately at the Scripps Countrywide Spelling Bee kept in Washington, DC, this week. Out from a pasture of 273 contestants, one smart kid 're going to emerge as the champion this era. With all that obscure words within the dictionary to make a choice from, we wondered how the competition's organizers opt for that words to utilise, so we questioned the competition's formal pronouncer, Jacques Bailey.
Mr. JACQUES BAILEY (Formal Pronouncer, Scripps Countrywide Spelling Bee): One classification that is near and dear to my heart which I do is called English, Greek and Latina.
MONTAGNE: Which set is composed of English words is it down or just me derived from each language. For instance, the Greek-derived word kronos.
Mr. BAILEY: And alongside of which, you will have a Latin-derived word meaning time really love tempest, temptress or temporal, fresh new, contemporaneous. Therefore i really like which classification since it demonstrates something to the English language and it leads the children merely by learning these 150 words to think of what is going on in English and why that could be so.
MONTAGNE: Other words are selected individually. A panel of wordsmiths started digging subsequent to last year's Bee for this past list. Jacques Bailey declares pinpointing methods to ratio the words stances a challenge.
Mr. BAILEY: Anyone within the lounge at our adapting meetings gives a rating from one to 5 of how we predict the word compares with the other words which we are working on. And occasionally I will declare, `One,' and another person 're going to declare, `Five.' That is graceful scarce, and which leads to a rating. It's actually not perfect.
MONTAGNE: The degree of hardship, for sure, is kin. A piano player 're going to have a less complicated time seemingly with musical clauses than somebody who plays tennis.
Mr. BAILEY: My ideal word is actually a word which mum and dad and the viewers on Television who watch the Bee 're going to declare, `Oh, that is a great word. I am going to add which to my terminology.' That is the ideal word.
MONTAGNE: Jacques Bailey 's the formal pronouncer at the 78th yearly Scripps Spelling Bee. A winner would be crowned later this era.
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