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Finola lives with her parents and two brothers in Tofield, Alberta, a tiny town southeast of Edmonton. “My oldest brother’s name is really hard to spell,” she says, as if bestowing on him the highest honour: “It’s T-a-d-h-g.” She also proudly spells her middle name — M-e-i H-w-a, Chinese for beautiful flower (her mom is Malaysian-Chinese, her dad Irish). 8 A$ U+ w+ X5 |2 S
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) K/ Z x) R9 ]Earlier in the day, Jaclyn Chang of Calgary was eliminated for stumbling on "gigerium" after spelling "strabismus" and "sortileger." Leslie Newcombe of Toronto misspelled "dhole" after getting "ersatz" right. 0 m% h0 q; y: N( ~5 U
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Anqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe."
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So many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!  |
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