"Top of the morning to you, Dr. Bailly," Robert Foster, Speller 20, greeted his pronouncer.
The Maryland sixth grader's word was "intertribal," existing or occurring between social groups comprising numerous families, clans or generations.
He stroked his chin, but his hand on his hips and was visibly relieved to spell it correctly.
(Yesterday, he was one of our early dabbers. Today, it was more like a low-key fist pump.)
