Katie Collins, speller 84, got a laugh from the crowd with her sentence for "mellisonant," which means "pleasing to the ear."
"In the days after the Bee, I watch the broadcast over and over again to hear the sound of my own mellisonant voice," Dr. Bailly read.
Katie, from Indiana, got it right.
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