St. Rose Student's Quest For Spelling Trophy Cut Short
Aine Donohue, an eighth-grader at St. Rose Grammar School in Belmar, misses top 10 finalists at Spelldown Regional Spelling Bee
A word with Middle English origin meaning woe and sorrow was the downfall of Wall's Aine Donohue, whose hopes for a bid on the Scripps National Spelling Bee were dashed at a regional competition Tuesday night. But not before about 89 other spellers at the regional Spelldown held at Monmouth University's Pollak Theater Monday and Tuesday were eliminated from the annual spelling competition. Aine narrowly missed advancing to the top 10 finalists after she misspelled "wellaway," during the fourth round of the Spelldown's second night of competition on Tuesday at Monmouth University. Before taking her best shot at the interjection refering to woe and sorrow, Aine asked pronouncer Bill Zapcic to define the archaic word and use it in a sentence…
In this Article:
