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"Thank you mom," speller 232, Brayden Armes said.

He misspelled "panache" and is out of the Bee. Armes is a Missouri eighth grader in his third Bee.

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We hope the sentence speller 231, Jenna Giles, got, proves to be true:

"When the spelling bee champion walked into the gas station, a ruckus broke out among those who wanted her autograph."

Jenna spelled "ruckus" correctly, so maybe she'll be able to find out!

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