[New-Poetry] Girl Wins Spelling Bee with 'ursprache'

[Halvard Johnson]

On Jun 2, 2006, at 10:27 AM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:
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> Some of the words the kids were faced with were just unbelievable.
> Very obscure and difficult, I thought.
> I should mention that the girl who ws runner-up went out
> on 'weltschmerz'....that's gotta be a world of pain.
> Finnegan

More and more words are hard to believe.

Hal

"Am I wrong, or are fewer and fewer people
  using the word 'Weltschmerz' these days?"
      		       --Christopher Howell

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