SOFTBALL

No softball for me last night.  I went to a commencement ceremony.  Don't get me started on that again.

Congratulations, Madeline.

Did you watch the National Spelling Bee on TV last night.  It ended in a tie again.  One of the winners was a fifth grader.  All of the other final ten contestants were seventh and eighth graders.

The words they have to spell now are ridiculous.  To demonstrate this, I have looked up the final or winning words since they started this contest in 1925.  It's amazing what has happened.  Here are some representative final words from contests past.

1925 - gladiolus
1930 - fracas
1935 - intelligible
1940 - therapy
1946 - semaphore
1950 - meticulosity
1955 - crustaceology
1960 - eudaemonic
1965 - eczema
1970 - croissant
1975 - incisor
1980 - elucubrate
1985 - milieu
1990 - fibranne
1995 - xanthosis
2000 - demarche
2005 - appoggiatura
2010 - stromuhr
2015 - scherenschnitte

Of this list of 19 words, my spell check thinks 10 are not words or that I have spelled them incorrectly - every one since 1990.  I haven't.  What's the point in all this?
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