It's not Jashun Paluru's first time at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The Indiana eighth grader, speller 192, finished in 10th place in 2016 and 16th place in 2017.
"Did you miss me?" he asked Dr. Bailly, to chuckles.
"Well, I'm glad you're here," the pronouncer responded.
Jashun proceeded to spell "paucity" correctly. It's smallness of quantity : dearth, insufficiency, scarcity.
