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Corn Palace: P-A-L…
by Becky - March 8, 2007 - 5:13 PM

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If you’re feeling confident in your spelling skills & you’re lucky enough to live within driving time of Mitchell, SD, get yourself over to this weekend’s 15th Annual Corn Palace Regional Spelling Bee! Corn and ambition and etymology–what could be better?! But if spelling bees give you hives, here are some other kinds of bees to attend:

Spinning Bees gh

Husking Bees iuy56

Threshing Bees piug

                    And if you want to feel superior without dressing up and speaking into a mic, here are, apparently, the top misspelled words on blogs.

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Comments (5)

  1. I live by Mitchell! Hurray!

    posted by Alyssa on 3-8-2007 at 9:25 pm

  2. The misuse of “lie” and “lay” drives me crazy.

    posted by Barbara on 3-8-2007 at 11:31 pm

  3. The one that gets me every time is misusing ‘phase’ for ‘faze’.

    Grrrrr!

    posted by andrea on 3-9-2007 at 5:13 am

  4. ok, so I’ve seen both the corn palace AND carhenge…this is terrible.

    posted by hana on 3-11-2007 at 10:58 pm

  5. The ones that make me insane are “insure” and “ensure” and also people who say “supposubly” instead of “supposedly.” Oh, also when people say “I could care less.” THINK about what you are saying people! Whenever I’m talking with someone and they use either of these last two, I just shut down and I can’t take them seriously anymore.

    I have been to the Corn Palace and it was a big letdown. Supposubly, it was suppobs to be made entirely out of corn, but it’s just a building with a bunch of corn glued to it. And guess what? They sell a bunch of corn-related products inside.

    posted by Leslie on 3-12-2007 at 2:18 pm

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