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June 02, 2012 01:50:21 GMT The 'Snow White and the Huntsman' leading lady reveals her favorite British word and how she likes to say it.

got quite candid during a press junket for her new movie "" recently. When asked what her favorite British slang word was, the Snow White depicter gave a "way too honest" answer that might be shocking for some.

The actress, who practiced her British accent for the Rupert Sanders-directed flick, said her favorite slang was "c***." Although it might be a rude word for many, she defended it, "You go over there [to England], and it's a very different effect. It's fun. It's good."

She, however, didn't just say a plain "c***" word. The girlfriend of British heartthrob dished on, "Add an '-ing' to it. .. I heard some really down English crazy guy, on our crew actually, really angry, adding the '-ing'." She additionally insisted, "It's a really good word."

Her co-star , who plays Prince William in the movie, chimed in, "['C***']'s become the new 'mate'." As for his own favorite American word, the British actor had a long list. "Aluminum. Garage. Trash," he laughed before adding, "The list is endless."

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TRENTON When is a Republican not a Republican?

When Gov. Chris Christie put up his two doomed state Supreme Court nominees Mayor Bruce Harris of Chatham Borough and First Assistant Attorney General Phillip Kwon he insisted Kwon was an unaffiliated voter.

Although Kwon had been a Republican in New York for more than a decade, after moving to New Jersey he subsequently registered as an independent last spring.

In the end, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected Kwon in March after questions arose about his familys business dealings.

Then at a news conference on Thursday in which Christie lambasted Democrats for turning away Harris, he first referred to Kwon as an independent. But in subsequent references, the governor called him a Republican.

"Before I made the nominations, diversity was all they talked about," Christie said at one point. "Then once I reached the bar of diversity, then they had to change the rules. Because Uh oh, he found two Republicans that are diverse? We didnt think hed be able to do that. So alright now weve got to change the rules."

Less than two minutes later, he did it again. "I think what happened here is they never thought I would come forward with two diverse candidates who happened to be Republicans," he said. "And once I ruined their plans, they had to come up with reasons to knock these guys off."

And toward the end of the news conference, when referring to Democrats delays in holding the hearings, Christie said: "They went, Oh no, he actually found two candidates with diversity who were Republicans. Now what are we going to do? "

A spokesman for the Republican governor dismissed the turns of phrase as a nettlesome press corps itching for a story. Yet it is at the heart of the debate between Christie and Democrats in the Legislature. They claim the governor is trying to tilt the partisan balance of the court more than his predecessors.

If two Republicans were to join the seven-member court, there would be four Republicans, two Democrats and one independent, Jaynee LaVecchia.

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A word of warning that silence is golden

By Liam Mackey

Saturday, June 02, 2012

We got the full monty here in Montecatini this week, from earth tremors to a minor eruption by Mt Trap.

The humour and novelty and inflated hysteria associated with feeling the earth moving beneath our feet quickly gave way to guilty embarrassment that an event whose most dramatic effect here in Montecatini was one colleagues shaving cream falling off his bathroom shelf, had actually caused death and destruction and wreaked havoc with the lives of people elsewhere in northern Italy.

Not a moment too soon, we in the travelling hack pack were back on our more familiar terra firma and dealing with rather more mundane matters, if that is a word which can properly be described to Kevin Foleys dropping from Irelands Euro 2012 panel. Yes, we all know that the disappointments of sport are put into an altogether different perspective by something like Italy s lethal terremoto, yet it would do a serious disservice to Foley to underplay the considerable emotional impact on his personal and professional life of the sudden termination of his Euro dreams

It ought to be recorded that Giovanni Trapattoni too was visibly sad on Tuesday talking about the decision to leave Foley behind but, as the manager was at also at pains to point out, it was a call he felt duty-bound to make "disregarding personal feeling."

To the extent that he was finally forced into making an entirely professional but, for Foley, deeply painful decision, Trapattoni was only being true to his own footballing principles. And he deserves no criticism for that.

From what, admittedly with hindsight, was the premature announcement of the Euro 2012 squad, to the ambiguous references to "knocks" and "recovery" in the quotes attributed to Trapattoni about Foley in an FAI statement released just after Tuesdays midday deadline, two conditions were in place which helped ensure that, when it finally came, the shock and upset for the unfortunate player and, indeed, for his team mates could hardly be more destabilising or more acute.

Even had it been a bumpy ride thus far in terms of Irelands Euro preparations, the Foley story would still have been big news at home. But in the context of an otherwise controversy-free build-up, it played across all media outlets almost as a mini well, okay, miniscule Saipan 2.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (USA TODAY) There were no "guetapens" here for 14-year-old Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, who won the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night when she correctly spelled the word, which means a trap or ambush.

Confetti shot into the air in front of Snigdha, who said she knew all her words when she got up in front of the microphone.

What will she do with her $30,000 cash prize?

"I don't know, maybe save it for college," Snigdha said.

Snigdha's grandparents traveled from India to watch her spell. Her family proudly stood up on stage as she was handed her trophy.

Snigdha said she studies 10-12 hours on weekends and six hours on weekdays. She wants to become a psychiatrist or a neurosurgeon.

First runner-up, Stuti Mishra, 14, of West Melbourne, Fla., misspelled "schwarmerei" which means excessive enthusiasm.

Nine finalists battled Thursday night after surviving a four-hour semifinal round that eliminated 41 hopefuls.

Two-year National Spelling Bee repeater Lena Greenberg, easily the most energetic of the spellers, screamed that she felt "amazing" as she wiggled, almost knocking over a decorative honeycomb.

Lena's last word seemed to stump her, but she jumped and squealed with joy when the judge announced that she had spelled "cholecystitis" perfectly.

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Snigdha Nandipati, 14, wins National Spelling Bee

The winner will take home $30,000 and a scholarship.

The most experienced speller remaining in the National Spelling Bee breezed through most of two semifinal rounds with his usual confidence. But with one word separating him from his first time in the finals, he was flustered.

"Kanaima."

Nicholas Rushlow went through the usual checklist, asking the definition an evil spirit, believed to be an avenger. Next he asked for the country of origin, which was British Guyana. Pronouncer Jacques Bailly used it in two sentences.

"Is there anything else I didn't ask?" Rushlow said.

After getting the word right, he mouthed a word that was easy to spell "Whoa!" then bounded back to his seat and high-fived his few remaining competitors.

Out of 278 participants who gathered at a convention center outside Washington, nine made it to the finals Thursday evening. They nailed words derived from Greek, Latin, French, German, Hawaiian and Afrikaans. They got proper names and obscure medical terms.

Snigdha Nandipati was first up in the finals. The 14-year-old avid reader from San Diego correctly spelled "psammon," which means an ecological community.

Hours earlier, Lena Greenberg, an excitable home-schooled 14-year-old from Philadelphia, became the last to make the finals when she spelled "cholecystitis" an inflammation of the gallbladder. She said she didn't know the word but was able to piece it together. After spelling it right, she ran back to her chair, handed out high fives and buried her face in her hands.

"It means so much," Greenberg said. "I can't believe I got here! It doesn't make sense. There were a lot of the words in the semifinals I didn't know."

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