Word: chaffinches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dana spelled lapicide with an "s," her first chance of victory. But Sandra was even further off with lappiside. Dana spelled nasillate nasalate, but Sandra muffed again with nasilate. The same thing happened when Dana turned scelotyrbe into scelloturby, and Sandra made it skelloturby. The girls recovered on cerumen, chaffinch and ichneumon. Then the pronouncer said: "Schappe...
Last week, Fanatic Koch propounded an interesting ornithological theory: that chaffinches have different accents in different parts of the world. Playing the song of a British chaffinch, German-accented Dr. Koch said: "Ant now, as you vill see by my next record, zee German chaffinch, unlike zee Kent chaffinch, finishes op viz a sound like 'wurz debur.' " Sure enough...
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