Reblochon

Mike has a friend Wendy who lives in Billings, Montana.
They grew up together in Beatrice; Wendy’s Mom Sherri was like a surrogate Mom to Mike and remains so even today.

Sherri called Mike yesterday with the exciting news that her granddaughter Sarah, Wendy’s daughter, had made it into the semi-final round of the National Spelling Bee.
This was big stuff!
I immediately tuned in to the live competition being broadcast on ESPN and was blown away by these kids.

Compunctious, corrigenda, affiche, Corrine, rascacio, schuhplattler, laquear, pappardelle and yosenabe were just a few of the words these kids were challenged to spell correctly.

They were extremely poised on live national television as they asked the moderators for definitions, alternate pronunciations and origin of language.
They also cheered each other on with each victory and showed grace and compassion when a competitor went out in a round.

Sarah went out in the 5th round.
After successfully spelling the words campaign, cajolery and tetradactylous, she drew the word “Reblochon”.
She mistakenly spelled it “Reblechon”.

Mike sent Wendy and Sherri the following email this morning:

What kind of Bullshit word is Reblochon? I saw one kid on TV bitching cuz he went out on "Clevis" what a dip-shit, hell I even know how to spell clevis and that's saying something!!! He gets clevis and your kid gets Reblochon, that's crap!!! I hate the French and their precious cheese probably sucks anyway!

Reblochon is a French cheese from the Alps region of Savoie and has been granted the AOC title. Reblochon was first produced in the Thônes and Val d'Arly valleys of the massif des Aravis. Thônes remains the centre of Reblochon production.

Mike

P.S. my spell check when I went to send this e-mail didn't even know how to spell Reblochon. It didn't even have any suggestions.

Well… at least the “kid’s” displayed grace and compassion!!!