The bad news: Our buddy, 13-year old Samir Patel, was just eliminated in Round 5 of the Semifinals. It was his fifth and last National Spelling Bee appearance. He got out on the word 'clevis.' He spelled it 'C-L-E-V-I-C-E.' It's a term we use quite regularly here at work, but a word that our buddy Samir Patel will never forget. He says "But I just outsmarted myself. It was an easy word. I just made a stupid mistake."
Poor Samir. I'll have to watch the defeat on TiVo when I go home tonight. Farewell, Samir. You had a good run.
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Yes, poor Samir. Though once he becomes a structural engineer he will never again misspell the word C-L-E-V-I-S.
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