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Monday, February 17, 2020 - 09:54

Final Local Bees

It is Final Local Bee season across the country as spellers put their preparation to the test by competing against other school spelling bee winners. The Scripps National Spelling Bee estimates 11 mil...

Final Local Bees Begin in PA, TN, NY and Jamaica

Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 15:18

Final Local Bees

It is Final Local Bee season across the country as spellers put their preparation to the test by competing against other school spelling bee winners. The Scripps National Spelling Bee estimates 11 mil...

The Scripps Cup(s)

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 02:47

The trophy the eight (!) champion spellers lifted at the end of the Scripps National Spelling Bee looks a little different than in the past. Instead of a traditional trophy, the new ver...

The octo-champs

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 01:12

It was 12:05 a.m. when Rohan Raja spelled the last correct word of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. At that point, it had been more than an hour since anyone had spelled anything wrong. The resul...

We have so many champions

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:54

Our first champion is Rishik Gandhasri, speller 5. The California seventh grader spelled "auslaut" correctly. "It's great to be here," said Erin Howard, speller 93 and an Alabama eighth grader. ...

On to round 20

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:47

Speller 427, Christopher Serrao, spelled "omphalopsychite," one who stares fixedly at their navel to induce a mystical trance. "I'm still nervous," Christopher said before the fina...

Not number one

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:42

Erin Howard, speller 93, likes having a buffer. Erin was used to being speller 1 in her early years. "Now, I have a sense of how difficult the words in that round are going to be," she said. "I ...

Try to relax

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:39

Abhijay Kodali, speller 407, finished third last year. The Texas sixth grader said said there's more pressure on him this year, but he's just trying to focus on his word. He's excited, he said, and...

Shoe hound

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:36

Speller 307, Shruthika Padhyis a well-known shoe hound and was sporting her new Jordan 11s for Thursday's championship competition. She spelled "therblig," one of the manual, visual...

This is fun

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:34

"This is fun," Dr. Bailly said to speller 5, Rishik Gandhasri. Rishik said his friends "kind of forgot the whole thing." But it'll be hard to forget this. He spelled "murrain" correctly. ...

Dallas represents

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:23

Sohum Sukhatankar, speller 354, is in his third Bee, but it's his first time in the finals. (He's doing well.) Sohum just spelled "urfirnis" correctly. It's a lustrous paint varying from black to r...

He did not vomit

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 23:10

"I just sounded like I vomited," said Rohan Raja, speller 462, upon pronouncing his word, "Gaeltacht." It's the Gaelic-speaking or Irish-speaking districts. The Texas seventh grader got it right. ...

Moments of levity

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:59

Erin Howard, speller 93, was thrilled to learn that her word did not have a feminine French ending. "Please say no," she said, when she asked Dr. Bailly about the root. He said it was not. "Than...

Simone is out

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:50

Simone Kaplan, speller 65, is out. Simone, a Florida seventh grader, tied for 10th place last year and 189th in 2017. She's correctly spelled words that include xystus, varsovienne, marae, Stakh...

Alice is out

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:42

Alice Liu, speller 252, is out on "Rassenkreis." It's a species having several types or subdivisions especially when exhibiting a pattern of geographical replacement of one type by another. The Mis...

More competitive

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:37

"Oh God," said Rohan Raja, speller 462. But the Texas seventh grader needn't have worried. He spelled "vintem" without trouble. It's a Portuguese coin worth twenty reales ((ray-AH-lays)) that was f...

Everyone has improved a lot

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:31

Navneeth Murali, speller 291 and last year's fifth place finisher is out. The New Jersey seventh grader misspelled "ischiocerite,"a joint of the antenna of a crustacean. He correctly...

This is a fruit

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:19

It's the start of Round 13, and there are 11 spellers left. "This is a fruit, a citrus fruit, and it's Chinese," said Simone Kaplan, speller 65, when she heard her word -- "huanglongbing." ...

Colette, of the mismatched socks

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:13

"Well, it was bound to happen sometime," Colette Giezentanner, speller 304 said, as she was eliminated. She misspelled "Chama," a member of a genus of eulamellibranchiate bivalve m...

Nicholas is out

Thursday, May 30, 2019 - 22:08

Nicholas D'Sa, speller 101, misspelled "jalap," the dried purgative tuberous root of a Mexican plant or the powdered drug prepared from it. The California eighth grader spelled nepotism, macronutri...