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The Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub was filled with freshman last night at the first Annual Freshman Spelling Bee. With former Howard Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion George A. Thampy ’10 presiding as emcee, spellers and audience members gathered for a night of pizza bagels...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshmen Face Off at the Queen’s Head | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

6 Guess wildly when reading multisyllabic words instead of sound them out?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Your Child Dyslexic? | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

MC PAUL BARMAN. Geek rapper extraordinaire drops knowledge and irony on Cambridge with multisyllabic nerdplay. Thursday, Feb. 13 at 11:15 p.m. Tickets $10. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St., (617) 492-0082. (RJK)

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HAPPENING :: Events Feb. 7 - Feb. 13 | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

But multisyllabic "Fif-teen Min-utes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: So You Wanna Be an MTV VeeJay Too | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

But multisyllabic "Fif-teen Minutes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAME IN THE NAME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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