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 Message 295,944 of 297,380 
 Christian Weisgerber to Ross Clark 
 Re: First National Education Association 
 02 Jul 24 14:06:40 
 
From: naddy@mips.inka.de

On 2024-07-02, Ross Clark  wrote:

> The Spelling Bee -- unique to the English-speaking world*, a ritual

I'm pretty sure there have been spelling contests on French TV.

Basically any language where getting from pronunciation to spelling
involves a lot of ambiguity is a candidate.
Thai? Chinese??

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)

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