Word: saleratus
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Aileron, Maggoty. In the finals, Sonya spelled baccalaureate, saleratus and aileron correctly, drew a smile by asking whether the pronouncer meant an "ape or an underground worker" when he asked for guerrilla. Finally, she put two t's in maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish...
...wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece in the spare-room and had taken pains to speak of it in the hearing of Mrs. Butterfield, who had taken more than usual pains with her saleratus biscuits and coffee, and the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot had been more than usually "thankful for what we are about to receive...
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