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Day: May 2, 2014

logorrhea (lȯgə-rēə)

Hi everyone! Our first championship word is logorrhea, which means excessive talkativeness. The word comes from the Greek root logo, meaning word, and the Greek suffix rrhea, meaning flow. So, in a literal sense it means “word flow” or you may say “flow of words.” Nupur Lala, from Tampa, Florida spelled this word to win the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee.  Well, that’s it for this week;  I hope you check back next week for another championship word!

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May 2, 2014
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