"Gooood morning," Darian Douglas, speller 169, said to Dr. Bailly. It was 12:20 p.m.
The seventh grader from Jamaica was clear about his word, though. He knocked out "Kneippism," treatment of disease by forms of hydrotherapy (as walking barefoot in morning dew).
He is one of two international students in the Bee. Enya Hubers, speller 395 from Canada, is the other.