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Bill had no trouble with heterogeneous, and though he had no idea what it meant he managed to get through accrete. Other contestants were not so lucky: mellifluous lost an "1," fenestrate got a "phi," and molybdenum came out moldinum. By the time Bill was getting apocalypse, Pharisaical and littoral, the auditorium was already ringing with misspelled words (baubal, glatial, pavillion, urbain, annoble). Finally, the contest was narrowed down to three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Think Before You Spell | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

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