The Young Relative is normally shrewd beyond his years when it comes to eliciting praise from Tilda, but he must be out of practice: he told me that on his first spelling pretest of the school year, he got 3 words wrong out of 16.
I let him know that was distinctly NOT up to Tally-ho standards.
He didn't improve matters by saying that only one kid in the class did better than he did -- that scholar, it seems, got every single word correct, including even "turquoise" and "whimsical."
The Young Relative almost made up for it, though, by correctly spelling "Barack Obama" and "Mitt Romney" when I quizzed him. And on the first Sunday of Football Season, he redeemed himself entirely by correctly spelling the surname of the Steelers QB: "Roethlisberger."
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