Canadians Are So With The Words

Congratulations to Adam Logan of Montreal! He won the World Scrabble Championships in London besting 105 players from 41 countries. (CBC article) Adam won three games in a row to win the best-of-five final round, the first of which he clinched by scoring 140 points with the word twistier...which I think is more points than I can score in an entire game. Yes, this news is enough to invoke my national pride. It's like how Canadians are inordinately proud of our contribution to NASA's space program, in unison now, Canadarm! As you can see by this page in the CBC archives, the Canadarm is dubbed "A Technology Star" and it doesn't stop with the Canadarm, no no, we were also elated to see "The Canadarm finally 'shake hands' with the new Canadarm2." So is this just because we don't have enough to celebrate or do we really have immeasurable joy for all Canadian accomplishments bursting from every orifice? Personally, I agree with the latter, and I hope I speak for most of us living under the red maple leaf when I say that.
As a side note, when I did a spell check of this entry Canadarm was flagged and the word suggested to replace it was sanatorium. Priceless!