An important note about our pronouncer

You all have gotten used to Dr. Bailly's voice in the pronouncer's chair. But did you know that we actually have two pronouncers at the Bee?
For this round, you'll be hearing from Dr. Sietsema instead. With the addition of so many new spellers through the RSVBee program, we don't want to wear out anyone's vocal chords. After all, two days of pronouncing is a long run – but three full days of reading spelling words is more like a marathon, and we don't want to wear anyone out.
We look forward to you getting to know Dr. Sietsema, too!

2012 Spelling Bee banquet