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Finola lives with her parents and two brothers in Tofield, Alberta, a tiny town southeast of Edmonton. “My oldest brother’s name is really hard to spell,” she says, as if bestowing on him the highest honour: “It’s T-a-d-h-g.” She also proudly spells her middle name — M-e-i H-w-a, Chinese for beautiful flower (her mom is Malaysian-Chinese, her dad Irish).
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5 B! _0 p" o2 O$ N& @6 A8 V6 W; TEarlier in the day, Jaclyn Chang of Calgary was eliminated for stumbling on "gigerium" after spelling "strabismus" and "sortileger." Leslie Newcombe of Toronto misspelled "dhole" after getting "ersatz" right. - p/ _8 i6 {% y+ M4 A
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Anqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe." + s; Q, T7 J) a4 o2 O
0 _" S7 p* g1 Z6 t$ {So many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!  |
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