Are you ready for some #SpellingBee action? We're live-tweeting the @ScrippsBee semifinals at 10 am ET. 41 young spellers are raring to go.- Profiles of the 41 #SpellingBee semifinalists: http://ow.ly/58vp6 Recap of yesterday's action by @bgzimmer: http://ow.ly/58vrI
- You can watch the #SpellingBee semifinals live on ESPN, streaming online at ESPN3... now!
- Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego starts the #spellingbee finals: correctly spells "meridienne" (short sofa)
- A returnee, Laura Newcombe of Toronto, Ontario, gets "isochronal" (having equal duration) #spellingbee
- Laura Newcombe tied for 5th last year, with Joanna Ye - both back. Nicholas Rushlow is the 4-time returnee. Contenders! #spellingbee
- Another Canadian, Veronica Penny of Ottawa, gets "boutade" (outbreak of temper) - knows her French #spellingbee
- 3rd-timer David Phan of Longmont, Colorado gets "deuteragonist" (2nd actor in Greek drama) - identified Greek roots #spellingbee
- Dhivya Senthil Murugan of Denver, Colorado gets "duchesse" (small cream puff) - more French! #spellingbee
- Grace Remmer of St. Augustine, Florida gets "anaphylaxis" (hypersensitivity to foreign proteins) #spellingbee
- And we're back. Claire Zuo of Palmetto Bay, FL continues the error-free opening of the semifinals with "Ovidian" (of Ovid) #spellingbee
- Another Floridian 1st-timer, Stuti Mishra, gets a toughie: "canaille" (mob, rabble, riffraff) #spellingbee
- Pranav Sivakumar of Tower Lakes, IL gets "excrescential" (relating to an outgrowth) -- still no errors so far #spellingbee
- Home-schooled 3rd-timer Gina Solomito of Indianapolis, IN has no problem with "supposititious" (spurious, counterfeit) #spellingbee
- Hanif Brown Jr., pride of Kingston, Jamaica, gets "mansuetude" (meekness) #spellingbee
- 3rd-timer Emily Keaton of Pikeville, Kentucky misspells a Greek stumper, "sciamachy" (fighting with a shadow) #spellingbee
- We're back. Lily Jordan of Cape Elizabeth, Maine gets another Greek toughie, "thanatophidia" (venomous snakes) #spellingbee
- Sam Osheroff of Columbia, MD misspells "nuque" (back of the neck) as "nuch" #spellingbee
- Surjo Bandyopadhyay of Lusby, MD asks for "all the information you can give me," gets "lysozyme" (basic protein in egg white) #spellingbee
- Surabhi Iyer of Taunton, MA gets "Aesopian" (conveying innocent meaning to outsider, concealed meaning to conspirator) #spellingbee
- Siddharth Varanasi of Canton, MI easily gets "euryphagous" (eating various kinds of food) #spellingbee
- Anja Beth Swoap of Edina, Minnesota (20th place last year) gets "fissipedal" (cloven-footed) #spellingbee
- On ESPN3.com, you can watch the regular way, or you can "play along" with the word not given. #spellingbee
- Back to semifinal action. Connor Gunsbury of Nisswa, Minnesota gets "rhinorrhagia" (Greek word for nosebleed) #spellingbee
- Jenny Solheim of Omaha, NE, gets "exsculptate" (having lines resembling sculpture) - tricky "xs"! #spellingbee
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