"Ted didn’t have time to go to the store again, so he substituted a white onion for a shallot in the recipe," Dr. Bailly read. "Been there."
Nikil Shyamsunder, speller 514, may not have cooked with a "shallot" before, either -- it's a bulbous perennial herb that resembles an onion and produces small clustered bulbs used in seasoning.
The Virginia eighth grader in his second Bee misspelled and is out.
