Let's get it started! @ScrippsBee semifinals are starting on ESPN News. #spellingbee
Public Service Announcement: both @PeterSokolowski and @VisualThesaurus are live-tweeting the #SpellingBee. Follow & learn some new vocab!- Kevin Lazenby of Opelika, Alabama correctly spells "cephalalgia" - Greek word for headache #spellingbee
- Sumaita Mulk of Goodyear, AZ correctly spells "hinoki" - Japanese word for "sun tree" #spellingbee
- Apolonia Gardner of Imperial, CA misspells "phalarope" - a bird that resembles a sandpiper. The dreaded schwa! #spellingbee
- Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego has no problem with "stochastically" - from Greek, meaning "in a random manner" #spellingbee
- Siddharth Kulkarni of San Jose, CA nails "projicient" - "serving to bring an organism into relation with the environment" #spellingbee
- Back from break, @ScrippsBee is talking about 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison, youngest speller, didn't make the cut for semis. #spellingbee
- Canadian speller Jennifer Mong has no trouble with "berserker" - "ancient Scandinavian warrior reputed to be invulnerable" #spellingbee
- Vancouver's Mignon Tsai correctly spells the chemical word "oxyacetylene" - "of a mixture of oxygen and acetylene" #spellingbee
- Frank Cahill of Parker, CO knows his fruit flies, correctly spells "drosophila" #spellingbee
Go, Frank, Go! RT @VisualThesaurus Frank Cahill of Parker, CO knows his fruit flies, correctly spells "drosophila" #spellingbee- Five-timer Rahul Malayappan of Danbury, CT can't buy a vowel but nails "cicatrize" meaning "heal by forming a scar" #spellingbee
- Grace Remmer of St. Augustine, FL has no trouble with "proselytizer" - "one that makes or tries to make converts" #spellingbee
- Miami's Vaidya Govindarajan says he likes "cynghanedd" - tough Welsh word for a system of alliteration and rhyme #spellingbee
- Vaidya Govindarajan of Miami correctly spells "intravitam" - from Latin, "during life; while the subject is alive" #spellingbee
- Christal Schermeister of Pembroke Pines, FL knows her French, spells "coulisse" - "a side scene of the stage in a theater" #spellingbee
- Stuti Mishra of West Melbourne, FL has no trouble with "endergonic" - "requiring work or the expenditure of energy" #spellingbee
- Four-timer Rachael Cundey of Evans, GA nails "nefast" - a word meaning "wicked" from Latin #spellingbee
- Atlanta's Simola Nayak correctly spells "cassideous" - a botanical word meaning "shaped like a helmet" #spellingbee
- Simon Ricci of Chicago successfully navigates "nephropathy" - from Greek, "an abnormal state of the kidney" #spellingbee
- Marlene Santora of N. Riverside, IL misspells the Italian musical term "freddo" meaning "cold, passionless" - missed a "d" #spellingbee
I wish I could be watching the @ScrippsBee on ESPN right now. :( Settling for live tweeting from @wordnik and @VisualThesaurus. #NerdParade- Pranav Sivakumar of Tower Lakes, IL nails "cancrivorous" - Latin-derived word for "feeding on crustaceans" #spellingbee
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