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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). / `, e& }4 o: L9 e* C6 r
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$ V! I. n0 `+ ~ ]Earlier 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. $ H8 _' K! G! c3 h$ z+ x! ^2 q+ C
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Anqi Dong of Saskatoon was eliminated in the afternoon's first round after misspelling "nepenthe."
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+ o/ z0 x) f6 A. T0 `0 [( mSo many Chinese kids in this spelling contast!  |
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