"Salutations," said Lindsay Davis, speller 78. "Also, when I play the piano, I push the keys gently."
The Arizona student spelled "eland" correctly. It's either of two large African antelopes of which both male and female have short spirally twisted horns.
When it comes to the piano, though, she was responding to the sentence for a previous word, "unmelodious." The sentence read: "Lyndsey slammed the piano keys in frustration, causing a loud, unmelodious bang."
