"We wish you a happy birthday anyway today," Head Judge Mary Brooks told Thomas Cherry, Speller 135, after he misspelled "affricate."
The word means a stop and its immediately following release through the articulatory position for a continuant nonsyllabic usually homorganic consonant : a speech sound like that of the first two letters in the word "choose" or "child."
We hope the Florida seventh grader has a wonderful day.
