Spellbound

The movie was hilarious-- the kids because they were cute (and heartwarmingly nerdy) and the parents because they were, for the most part, completely crazy. Real people are so funny. Seriously, I laughed out loud a lot more than I thought I would watching a documentary about spelling bee contestants.

And for those of you wondering about the unrelated but identically titled book I am also reading, an interesting fact. You know when they use "ye" instead of "the" as in "Ye Olde Candy Shoppe" or a Seattle favorite "Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe" (an interesting mix of tacky souvenirs and shrunken heads)? [The sad part, given that this is a post about spelling, is that I just tried about 17 different combinations of e's and i's before I finally got rid of the red line under souvenirs.] Well, it's actually supposed to still be pronounced "th" and not "y," as "ye" was ye olde second person. In fact, it came from a symbol (called "the thorn") that used to also represent the "th" sound, and since it looked kind of like a y, that's why they used it.