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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is the most impressive thing that you did have
done in your athletic life, or what you would consider
an athletic achievement. Something you did that in the right
sphere could be shown on ESPN.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh boy, could be shown on ESPN. There's a couple
of different ways. Like, personally, I built myself back up
into this was a big deal for me personally. Last
summer I was able to do a pull up again,
and I hadn't been in that upper body condition for
a while, so I was proud of that. So that's
a private point of all right, pride there. I ran
(00:32):
seven miles once when I was like eighteen or nineteen
seven and a half, maybe closer to eight, So that's
the longest I've ever ran in one stint. So that
was the point of pride there. ESPN. I don't know,
Like I remember playing pickup basketball with a group of
friends back in high school, right, And you're not talking
to a guy who played a whole lot of pickup basketball.
Most of the time. I was out shooting hoops in
(00:53):
the driveway by myself, just kind of having hoop dreams
that were unfulfilled. But I don't know what it was.
I must have had. I probably just somehow filled my
water bottle full of that that water they had in
Space Jam, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Michael's special stuff for super stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, and I just was out there. I'm telling you,
I was doing behind the back passes through the legs.
I was, you know, I was looking like John Stockton
out there, and I just I'll never forget that because
I was playing with a couple of guys who were
on the basketball team, and they were looking at me
like this guy, this guy's doing this like they they
looked at me different after that day. Your your shorts
(01:28):
were probably a little bagger in his Oh well, there's
one hundred percent possibility of that. Yeah. I wasn't showing
off any thigh meet, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
John Stockton was famous for not doing the baggy pants.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, you know what, maybe he should have. Maybe he
should have.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't know. He kind of looked the part. If
you're gonna be honest, I'm gonna be honest with you anyway. Okay,
So I asked because ESPN had a very important thing
today on and I think, by the way, my most
impressive achievement I could make some really nice catches in
the outfield playing rec league baseball last few years. Uh
and uh some basketball, but probably I was All first
team All Conference in tennis my junior year, so that that. Yeah,
(02:04):
and I was a doubles player, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The Script's National Spelling Bee was today a national championship
and it was on ESPN, and we had several people
whose names I also would have trouble spelling, that were involved,
and we're very good at this the eleven, twelve, and
thirteen year olds pretty much. I won my elementary school
(02:27):
spelling Bee twice as a fifth grader and a sixth
grader went to the area of spelling b or like
the city wide spelling Bee, and only made it like
four or five words both times. I was not well
prepared and never really gave it a run to get
to the state spelling be Now, I mention all of
this right because I'm trying to, you know, like I
(02:47):
like to spell things correctly. I'm not a person that
doesn't care, like I'm kind of OCD about that. But
some of the words that these guys are given, these gals,
guys of this age they're supposed to spell. I just
have no idea what you would ever need to know them,
and I guess that's a beef that I have with
the application. But for a contest, it's incredible that they
have any idea what these words like, like how to
(03:10):
spell these words. So, Matt, I'm going to test you
today on some of the words that today were being
spelled by these competitors who are eleven, twelve, and thirteen
years old. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Hey? I don't see why not? Do you want me
to get the ding? Ready? Don't they use the ding
when they get it wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah? Yeah, you don't need the ding?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, no, I don't need the ding. Okay, we don't
need the ding.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you're just
gonna get on them wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But the ding when you're right? Are they know when
you're wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Ding when you're wrong? Yeah, yep, no, nothing when you're right.
When you're right, just people clap for you when you're right. Okay,
So I'm gonna play.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I don't know how to say a lot of these words,
so I'm I'm gonna have Google say them for me. Okay,
are you ready, Matt? Here is your first word?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Okay? Added? Can I can I get it in a
sentence please uh added?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Uh? Did the added them was messy and to be
cleaned up?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Can I hear it in a Southern accent? Please?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, because there's absolutely zero chance that anyone with a
Southern accent would have any reason to use this word.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
There's defensive. Oh wait, maybe it's not. So this isn't
something in the South. So this is a patently Northern.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Word or just patently non South.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
They just don't do this down there.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There'd be no reason too.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Does that have something to do with math?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, although I can see why you would say that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Added them.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, it's a tricky one. Can I get the root
word of origin? No, because there isn't one.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay, we'll say finish.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No it's not it's a Latin. It's a Latin word.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, it goes back to Roman time. So this is
a kind of word people would be saying out there
at the Roman court.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They have sixty seconds to get these words. I think
you're running out of time here.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But I think I get an added fifteen every time I.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Ask a question. That's not true. Nope, you can ask questions.
Say it counts on your sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Added them add added add um.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's pretty good. That's a pretty good guess. A why tea?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You whim added, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's not t. It's it's pronounced with a D, So
there's a tea there, but it's said.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Like a D. It's like often people who say often
you're actually.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Wrong, that is wrong. Yeah, you're right, A silent ta.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So it's Greek. Actually, innermost sanctuary of an ancient Greek
temple is the the definition added added them. Yep. Uh
so if you ever need to talk about the innermost
sanctuary of an ancient Greek temple, there you go. Okay,
we're number two. Are you ready? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And yeah, they wouldn't need that in the South.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I see what you mean. Yeah, see what I mean. Okay,
So are you ready? Here's the word number two?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay, imbrolio imbrolio, imbrolio. Okay, you're ready? I can I
get Can I kind of hear it in a sentence?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Please? Yeah? So Watergate was a pretty interesting embrolio.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, it's like embroiled in a controversy. It's like when
your bros get embroiled in a controversy. You know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You kind of the COVID nineteen. Man, that was some
gigantic embrolio, wasn't it though.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Hm M brollio. So we'll say, okay mbroly oh.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
M E M bro b r O y l O. No, no,
I could try though embrolio. I am it's an I
I am b r O g l I O. The
silent g's in there. There's a silent G. Matt so inbrolio.
An extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wait, an extremely confusing, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You would you would call the the worldwide pandemic and
an extremely complicated, confusing, or embarrassing situation.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, isn't it? It was a extremely confused, complicated, or
embarrassing situation, A confused heap. Yeah. Anyway, there you go.
There's two where I have two more for you, including
the word that the kid who won today had to
spell correctly to win. I will get to that next.
Stay with us play along at home if you'd like.
It's three seventeen on news radio eleven ten KFAB. We
have the script's National Spelling be took place today and Matt,
(07:16):
remember the first word I asked you to spell I
did him was it. That was what it was, all right, listen, Okay,
I got to talk back from a listener, Andy, and
you asked me one of the questions you asked me
to joking, can you use it in a Southern accent
so I could like help you with And I said,
I know I'm not going to do that, and there
(07:37):
would be no reason for somebody from the South to
even know what this word was, which was kind of
a hint to you. Right well, Andy, decided to help
us out on that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I knew that I was missing one of my kids,
so I added them up.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
No, see, not the right not the right word. But
I like where he's thinking. That's funny the added them
up up. That's funny.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You can take anyway jeth throw out of the South,
but you can't take the South out of jeth throw.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
By the way, adadem is the innermost sanctuary of an
ancient Greek temple whoever knows.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, which is a much fancier thing than you might think.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Ye, ancient Greek, by the way, So again, current situations
of legitimate functionality of that word, not really sure you're
going to ever have to use that one. All right, Matt,
I got two more words for you here? Are you ready?
All right? And these are words that actually were spelled
today by these kids, all right and spelled correctly? Mind you?
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Here?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
A gerontocracy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Gerontocracy that is a government there is run by the elderly.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
What how do you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Just say the word says it all gar intocracy.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It is literally, as far as the definition in the
Oxford Dictionary, a state, society or group governed by old people.
There you go. Yeah, all right, so spell it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Kind of feel like I don't even need to at
this point.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But yeah, yeah, you do. That's the whole point. It's
a spelling bee.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, well, you know what, maybe it's a dictionary bee
and I nailed it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, you nailed this one. Yeah. Can you spell it correctly?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Gir intocracy? Yep, I'm gonna get it wrong. I'll just
say that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm gonna tell you it's a little tricky.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's gonna end c R A C why.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It will, But that's not how you spell it. You
can't tell the guys in charge of the Script's National
spelling be that because they don't care. They'll just ring
that bell if that's how you're spelling it.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, but if I was like a mobster up there,
I'd be telling them what to do. That's what I
want to see. I want to see like a forty
five year old mobster dressed as a child up there,
like beeping and bopping all over the place and being like,
I'll spell it when I'm ready. Don't you that bell
at me? Have you seen Letter Kenny.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There's an episode of Letter Kenny where they're doing a
spelling bee and the hockey players always have the easiest
words so they can win. Like it's a conspira. Like
that's what the mob would do. The mob would be
a feeding really simple words or words that they definitely
knew that they'd get right. That's what they'd do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Spell is spelled gravy gee r A v e y.
That's how we spell it at Moss Place.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Who are we to tell you that that's correct.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He's right, he's right, folks, he's right.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
He gets the he gets to move on.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, he pointed at the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Please all right, anyway, spell the word intocracy jaren talkers.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So it's gonna be g e n or no no
no no g e r jaren g I'm gonna get
it wrong. But we'll say jar intocracy g e r
jaren I N talk t O c r a c y.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Nice drive. You only missed one letter. It's g e
r O N t O c r a c y.
And then the word that was the championship word for
our victor today, uh faison Zaki was the winner, his
winning hit, the winning word.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He got this correct, He got the word right, but
oddly enough, he spelled his name wrong on the check.
I can't even not, I can't. Can we get somebody
else to pronounce it? I feel like I need somebody
other than Jacques to pronounce that.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Please? All right, Well, here's here's what it sounded like
in the actual event today. Ready, your word is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
A cl that's totally different. The other guy had half
a croissot in his mouth when he was pronouncing it.
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
He sounds like Harry Carry. It's like liaison. Okay, so
we say liaison here, but if you're speaking French, and
I took French class for four years, I should know
it's really pronounced.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Liaison liisons liaison, yeah right, liaison and so but but
here and when you when you use that French word
in English, which you do, right, We don't change that word.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
The word still means the same thing. We just English
englishifiede it and we don't say liaison. We say liaison, right,
because that's what it looks like. Well, the actual pronunciation
for this word is okay, but but but in the
spelling bee, the American guy who's running the spelling bee,
this is what he said. Your word is a claire
(12:09):
small so a claire sismond. He doesn't even use the
French accent. It's like claire because there's an accent over
the first letter, which he didn't really say there very well.
But yeah, he's americanizing a French word. So it's like
a double whammy of confusion.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a French word that you can theoretically just steal
and use in English without changing it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
That's the point he's He's like the manager at the
Grand Island high Ve. I used to work at that.
Always called it the Italian Department.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh don't you just hate that?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Excuse me, sir, it's Italian.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, anyway, you got a climon.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, e c l A I R e umlauts umlauts
over the dash. Oddly enough, it's the only word like
it in the dictionary.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, there's no umlouts in French at all. Ever, it's
and you don't even have to spell the umelounce if
it's there. You know there's an accent over the first
e and is the correct first letter. Okay, but you
can just say e and it counts.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hashtag. Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So this is not an elon musk child that we're
spelling their name right like, this is a This is
a French.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Word hidden symbol. That's a E C L A I
R E clear C well ce C Like we'll spell
it like the restaurant. So we got e claire and
then we'll spell c C like the restaurant where you
could eat as much pizza as you wanted for five buckaroos.
Missed that place on Saddle Creek, please come back Ceci's pizza.
(13:38):
I miss you, uh C I C I. And then
so we got like I'm gonna guess m O and
then I'm gonna guess two h is just to get
that right sound at the end.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
No, that's not it. Here's faison zaki from allent tex As,
a thirteen year old. Here's a here's what happened.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Your word is.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
A claar C small a clar c small e c
l A I R c I S s E m
e n t A.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That is correct. He did it and he falls to
the ground. He was very happy with himself. He was
the runner up last year, so he got very close,
did not win this year. He did win. And yeah,
you weren't very far off. You got the first six
letters or seven letters, correct, I know. Yeah, so e
c l A I r c I S s E,
which is the very French party of course. And then
(14:35):
Mont is actually m e n t which that that's
how you say mat, like like m e n t
is Mont in French.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
CC's pizza takes another victim because I got distracted by
that all you can eat pizza buffet.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Which doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Barbecue chicken pizza. My man, they had barbecue chicken pizza
and it was all you can eat.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I'm pretty sure that there's places like that that still
exists somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah. Well, it took me fifteen years post CC's just
to be able to do a pull up again, so
you know, welcome to my world.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, all right, anyway, Eric Cleese Eclaire c smant if
the French somehow infiltrated the national script or script's national
spelling be in the United States of America. Congratulations to
them all right, we got a Friday four thirty minutes away.
We got plenty of fun. Maybe we'll give an effort
two away as well. Thanks for hanging out with us
on news radio eleven ten Kfabe
What is the most impressive thing that you did have
done in your athletic life, or what you would consider
an athletic achievement. Something you did that in the right
sphere could be shown on ESPN.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh boy, could be shown on ESPN. There's a couple
of different ways. Like, personally, I built myself back up
into this was a big deal for me personally. Last
summer I was able to do a pull up again,
and I hadn't been in that upper body condition for
a while, so I was proud of that. So that's
a private point of all right, pride there. I ran
(00:32):
seven miles once when I was like eighteen or nineteen
seven and a half, maybe closer to eight, So that's
the longest I've ever ran in one stint. So that
was the point of pride there. ESPN. I don't know,
Like I remember playing pickup basketball with a group of
friends back in high school, right, And you're not talking
to a guy who played a whole lot of pickup basketball.
Most of the time. I was out shooting hoops in
(00:53):
the driveway by myself, just kind of having hoop dreams
that were unfulfilled. But I don't know what it was.
I must have had. I probably just somehow filled my
water bottle full of that that water they had in
Space Jam, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Michael's special stuff for super stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, and I just was out there. I'm telling you,
I was doing behind the back passes through the legs.
I was, you know, I was looking like John Stockton
out there, and I just I'll never forget that because
I was playing with a couple of guys who were
on the basketball team, and they were looking at me
like this guy, this guy's doing this like they they
looked at me different after that day. Your your shorts
(01:28):
were probably a little bagger in his Oh well, there's
one hundred percent possibility of that. Yeah. I wasn't showing
off any thigh meet, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
John Stockton was famous for not doing the baggy pants.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, you know what, maybe he should have. Maybe he
should have.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't know. He kind of looked the part. If
you're gonna be honest, I'm gonna be honest with you anyway. Okay,
So I asked because ESPN had a very important thing
today on and I think, by the way, my most
impressive achievement I could make some really nice catches in
the outfield playing rec league baseball last few years. Uh
and uh some basketball, but probably I was All first
team All Conference in tennis my junior year, so that that. Yeah,
(02:04):
and I was a doubles player, So there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The Script's National Spelling Bee was today a national championship
and it was on ESPN, and we had several people
whose names I also would have trouble spelling, that were involved,
and we're very good at this the eleven, twelve, and
thirteen year olds pretty much. I won my elementary school
(02:27):
spelling Bee twice as a fifth grader and a sixth
grader went to the area of spelling b or like
the city wide spelling Bee, and only made it like
four or five words both times. I was not well
prepared and never really gave it a run to get
to the state spelling be Now, I mention all of
this right because I'm trying to, you know, like I
(02:47):
like to spell things correctly. I'm not a person that
doesn't care, like I'm kind of OCD about that. But
some of the words that these guys are given, these gals,
guys of this age they're supposed to spell. I just
have no idea what you would ever need to know them,
and I guess that's a beef that I have with
the application. But for a contest, it's incredible that they
have any idea what these words like, like how to
(03:10):
spell these words. So, Matt, I'm going to test you
today on some of the words that today were being
spelled by these competitors who are eleven, twelve, and thirteen
years old. Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Hey? I don't see why not? Do you want me
to get the ding? Ready? Don't they use the ding
when they get it wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah? Yeah, you don't need the ding?
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, no, I don't need the ding. Okay, we don't
need the ding.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that you're just
gonna get on them wrong.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
But the ding when you're right? Are they know when
you're wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Ding when you're wrong? Yeah, yep, no, nothing when you're right.
When you're right, just people clap for you when you're right. Okay,
So I'm gonna play.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I don't know how to say a lot of these words,
so I'm I'm gonna have Google say them for me. Okay,
are you ready, Matt? Here is your first word?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Okay? Added? Can I can I get it in a
sentence please uh added?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Uh? Did the added them was messy and to be
cleaned up?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Can I hear it in a Southern accent? Please?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No, because there's absolutely zero chance that anyone with a
Southern accent would have any reason to use this word.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
There's defensive. Oh wait, maybe it's not. So this isn't
something in the South. So this is a patently Northern.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Word or just patently non South.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
They just don't do this down there.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
There'd be no reason too.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Does that have something to do with math?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
No, although I can see why you would say that.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Added them.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, it's a tricky one. Can I get the root
word of origin? No, because there isn't one.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay, we'll say finish.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
No it's not it's a Latin. It's a Latin word.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh, it goes back to Roman time. So this is
a kind of word people would be saying out there
at the Roman court.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
They have sixty seconds to get these words. I think
you're running out of time here.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But I think I get an added fifteen every time I.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Ask a question. That's not true. Nope, you can ask questions.
Say it counts on your sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Added them add added add um.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
That's pretty good. That's a pretty good guess. A why tea?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
You whim added, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
It's not t. It's it's pronounced with a D, So
there's a tea there, but it's said.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Like a D. It's like often people who say often
you're actually.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Wrong, that is wrong. Yeah, you're right, A silent ta.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
So it's Greek. Actually, innermost sanctuary of an ancient Greek
temple is the the definition added added them. Yep. Uh
so if you ever need to talk about the innermost
sanctuary of an ancient Greek temple, there you go. Okay,
we're number two. Are you ready? Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
And yeah, they wouldn't need that in the South.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I see what you mean. Yeah, see what I mean. Okay,
So are you ready? Here's the word number two?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Okay, imbrolio imbrolio, imbrolio. Okay, you're ready? I can I
get Can I kind of hear it in a sentence?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Please? Yeah? So Watergate was a pretty interesting embrolio.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, it's like embroiled in a controversy. It's like when
your bros get embroiled in a controversy. You know what
I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
You kind of the COVID nineteen. Man, that was some
gigantic embrolio, wasn't it though.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Hm M brollio. So we'll say, okay mbroly oh.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
M E M bro b r O y l O. No, no,
I could try though embrolio. I am it's an I
I am b r O g l I O. The
silent g's in there. There's a silent G. Matt so inbrolio.
An extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Wait, an extremely confusing, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
You would you would call the the worldwide pandemic and
an extremely complicated, confusing, or embarrassing situation.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, isn't it? It was a extremely confused, complicated, or
embarrassing situation, A confused heap. Yeah. Anyway, there you go.
There's two where I have two more for you, including
the word that the kid who won today had to
spell correctly to win. I will get to that next.
Stay with us play along at home if you'd like.
It's three seventeen on news radio eleven ten KFAB. We
have the script's National Spelling be took place today and Matt,
(07:16):
remember the first word I asked you to spell I
did him was it. That was what it was, all right, listen, Okay,
I got to talk back from a listener, Andy, and
you asked me one of the questions you asked me
to joking, can you use it in a Southern accent
so I could like help you with And I said,
I know I'm not going to do that, and there
(07:37):
would be no reason for somebody from the South to
even know what this word was, which was kind of
a hint to you. Right well, Andy, decided to help
us out on that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I knew that I was missing one of my kids,
so I added them up.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
No, see, not the right not the right word. But
I like where he's thinking. That's funny the added them
up up. That's funny.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You can take anyway jeth throw out of the South,
but you can't take the South out of jeth throw.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
By the way, adadem is the innermost sanctuary of an
ancient Greek temple whoever knows.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, which is a much fancier thing than you might think.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Ye, ancient Greek, by the way, So again, current situations
of legitimate functionality of that word, not really sure you're
going to ever have to use that one. All right, Matt,
I got two more words for you here? Are you ready?
All right? And these are words that actually were spelled
today by these kids, all right and spelled correctly? Mind you?
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Here?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
A gerontocracy.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Gerontocracy that is a government there is run by the elderly.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
What how do you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Just say the word says it all gar intocracy.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
It is literally, as far as the definition in the
Oxford Dictionary, a state, society or group governed by old people.
There you go. Yeah, all right, so spell it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Kind of feel like I don't even need to at
this point.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
But yeah, yeah, you do. That's the whole point. It's
a spelling bee.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, well, you know what, maybe it's a dictionary bee
and I nailed it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, you nailed this one. Yeah. Can you spell it correctly?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Gir intocracy? Yep, I'm gonna get it wrong. I'll just
say that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I'm gonna tell you it's a little tricky.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It's gonna end c R A C why.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It will, But that's not how you spell it. You
can't tell the guys in charge of the Script's National
spelling be that because they don't care. They'll just ring
that bell if that's how you're spelling it.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, but if I was like a mobster up there,
I'd be telling them what to do. That's what I
want to see. I want to see like a forty
five year old mobster dressed as a child up there,
like beeping and bopping all over the place and being like,
I'll spell it when I'm ready. Don't you that bell
at me? Have you seen Letter Kenny.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
There's an episode of Letter Kenny where they're doing a
spelling bee and the hockey players always have the easiest
words so they can win. Like it's a conspira. Like
that's what the mob would do. The mob would be
a feeding really simple words or words that they definitely
knew that they'd get right. That's what they'd do.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Spell is spelled gravy gee r A v e y.
That's how we spell it at Moss Place.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Who are we to tell you that that's correct.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
He's right, he's right, folks, he's right.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
He gets the he gets to move on.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, he pointed at the floor.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Please all right, anyway, spell the word intocracy jaren talkers.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
So it's gonna be g e n or no no
no no g e r jaren g I'm gonna get
it wrong. But we'll say jar intocracy g e r
jaren I N talk t O c r a c y.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Nice drive. You only missed one letter. It's g e
r O N t O c r a c y.
And then the word that was the championship word for
our victor today, uh faison Zaki was the winner, his
winning hit, the winning word.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
He got this correct, He got the word right, but
oddly enough, he spelled his name wrong on the check.
I can't even not, I can't. Can we get somebody
else to pronounce it? I feel like I need somebody
other than Jacques to pronounce that.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Please? All right, Well, here's here's what it sounded like
in the actual event today. Ready, your word is.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
A cl that's totally different. The other guy had half
a croissot in his mouth when he was pronouncing it.
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
He sounds like Harry Carry. It's like liaison. Okay, so
we say liaison here, but if you're speaking French, and
I took French class for four years, I should know
it's really pronounced.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Liaison liisons liaison, yeah right, liaison and so but but
here and when you when you use that French word
in English, which you do, right, We don't change that word.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
The word still means the same thing. We just English
englishifiede it and we don't say liaison. We say liaison, right,
because that's what it looks like. Well, the actual pronunciation
for this word is okay, but but but in the
spelling bee, the American guy who's running the spelling bee,
this is what he said. Your word is a claire
(12:09):
small so a claire sismond. He doesn't even use the
French accent. It's like claire because there's an accent over
the first letter, which he didn't really say there very well.
But yeah, he's americanizing a French word. So it's like
a double whammy of confusion.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a French word that you can theoretically just steal
and use in English without changing it.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
That's the point he's He's like the manager at the
Grand Island high Ve. I used to work at that.
Always called it the Italian Department.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Oh don't you just hate that?
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Excuse me, sir, it's Italian.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Okay, anyway, you got a climon.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Okay, e c l A I R e umlauts umlauts
over the dash. Oddly enough, it's the only word like
it in the dictionary.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, there's no umlouts in French at all. Ever, it's
and you don't even have to spell the umelounce if
it's there. You know there's an accent over the first
e and is the correct first letter. Okay, but you
can just say e and it counts.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Hashtag. Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So this is not an elon musk child that we're
spelling their name right like, this is a This is
a French.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Word hidden symbol. That's a E C L A I
R E clear C well ce C Like we'll spell
it like the restaurant. So we got e claire and
then we'll spell c C like the restaurant where you
could eat as much pizza as you wanted for five buckaroos.
Missed that place on Saddle Creek, please come back Ceci's pizza.
(13:38):
I miss you, uh C I C I. And then
so we got like I'm gonna guess m O and
then I'm gonna guess two h is just to get
that right sound at the end.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
No, that's not it. Here's faison zaki from allent tex As,
a thirteen year old. Here's a here's what happened.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Your word is.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
A claar C small a clar c small e c
l A I R c I S s E m
e n t A.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That is correct. He did it and he falls to
the ground. He was very happy with himself. He was
the runner up last year, so he got very close,
did not win this year. He did win. And yeah,
you weren't very far off. You got the first six
letters or seven letters, correct, I know. Yeah, so e
c l A I r c I S s E,
which is the very French party of course. And then
(14:35):
Mont is actually m e n t which that that's
how you say mat, like like m e n t
is Mont in French.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
CC's pizza takes another victim because I got distracted by
that all you can eat pizza buffet.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Which doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Barbecue chicken pizza. My man, they had barbecue chicken pizza
and it was all you can eat.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I'm pretty sure that there's places like that that still
exists somewhere.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah. Well, it took me fifteen years post CC's just
to be able to do a pull up again, so
you know, welcome to my world.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Okay, all right, anyway, Eric Cleese Eclaire c smant if
the French somehow infiltrated the national script or script's national
spelling be in the United States of America. Congratulations to
them all right, we got a Friday four thirty minutes away.
We got plenty of fun. Maybe we'll give an effort
two away as well. Thanks for hanging out with us
on news radio eleven ten Kfabe
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