Word: hejira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...round, 28 contenders had been spelled down. Gradually the words got harder-depilatory . . . asthmatic . . . contumacious . , . and one by one the victims fell. At one point, Doris Ann thought that she too was a goner: she spelled hegira with a "j". But after consulting the dictionary, the judges found that hejira was a correct alternative. By round 23 Doris Ann was still standing-with only two other girls left...