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Some brilliant spelling on words such as "punaise" and "triticale" propelled Joseph Henares, 14, of Avon, Conn. -- winner of the Register's Connecticut Spelling Bee -- to fifth place out of 286 in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. But in the end, he ran up against an "aniseikonia" that he just couldn't surmount.
Joseph, who is home schooled, incorrectly spelled "aniseikonia" - - a defect of vision in which the images at the retinas are unequal in size -- as "aniciconia." That drew the dreaded bell that told him his quest to become the first Connecticut student ever to win the national bee had ended.See the full content of this document
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