little bitty girl

I am always in awe of those spelling bee kids. Do you know how vast the English language is? The average human being only uses something like 1/200th of its entirety in the average lifetime. To have to learn all those words, it simply boggles the mind. The thing is the kids who usually wins those look like nerds but the truth is, they probably are. And please don't think that I am mocking them, because I am so not. I would have given anything to have had a giant nerd brain when I was younger.

Now that I am older, I have simply given up the nerd dream and hope that I can sucker my progeny into being one. And in case, you're wondering,

Main Entry: sphyg·mo·ma·nom·e·ter

Pronunciation: "sfig-mO-m&-'nä-m&-t&r

Function: noun

Etymology: Greek sphygmos pulse (from sphyzein to throb) +

International Scientific Vocabulary manometer

: an instrument for measuring blood pressure and especially arterial

blood pressure
- sphyg·mo·ma·nom·e·try /-m&-'nä-m&-trE/ noun
Merriem-Webster Dictionary

and it was one of the words spelt by the thirteen year old who won the latest spelling bee.