Mareike Western, speller 57, had trouble with her word, "mucedinous."
"What?" she said upon hearing it.
Mareike struggled with the pronounciation.
"I'm going to get it wrong either way," she said.
Dr. Bailly reminded her that she promised to try -- all the spellers did in an assembly yesterday.
"I'm going to try, i'm just not going to do good," she said.
Mareike spelled the word with a "T" instead of a "D" and was eliminated.