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Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard
The word "equivalent" was 10-year-old Olivia Goodheart's undoing.
She spelled it wrong, erased it, spelled it right, then erased once more and made it wrong again.
"It just didn't look right," the Lorane Elementary fifth-grader said, her brow furrowed.
Turns out the very same word tripped up her rival, too - but Esther Ranjbar, also 10, missed only that word and one other, arbutus (which, in case you don't know, is a trailing plant of the heath family).
So with 28 out of 30 words correct, Esther, a fifth-grader at Eugene's...
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