Woohoo! It's spelling bee time in DC, when all sorts of wacky, wild and wonderful words have their day. For example, sardoodledom:

"Kennyi Aouad, 11, of Terre Haute, Ind., became a crowd favorite after he couldn't stop laughing when he was given the funky-sounding word 'Sardoodledom' (a melodramatic plot). He finally composed himself and asked all sorts of questions about the word — definition, part of speech, alternate pronunciations, use in a sentence — then tried to get an unallowable hint by asking: 'Is it kind of like kingdom?' He could hardly believe it when he spelled the word correctly."

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Link: Top spellers move to bee's final rounds - Yahoo! News

Posted May 31, 2007.

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