NO THANKS TO ESPN360.COM: Round Three has begun with the first speller making it through and the next three misspelling giusto, kibbutzim, and Sarsar.
update #1: It's hard to be snarky when you've heard of like five of the first 30 words. Fortunately for me, my husband comes from a big muh-stah-CHOH-lee town. (Kim)
update #2: It's not just those in Brooklyn who can spell Loo-ba-vich-uhr, but even those from Prince Edward Island. (Matt)
update #3: Non-PEI Canadians are having a tough time of it right now, with the last eight misspelled words all coming from our North of the Border neighbors. (Kim)
update #4: Fortunately for Canada, it would seem to be the case that Stamford, Connecticut's geological landscape is a little light on the ai-GWEEL. (Kim)
update #5: A big welcome to all Instapundit readers! Hope you check back throughout the next two days. We'll be having a live chat during tomorrow night's finale. (The Pathetic Earthling)
update #6: This round is totally reminding me of one of those dreams where you show up for class not knowing you had a test that day and having no idea what it was you were being tested on. Except that these kids did know what was coming -- which makes it worse, right? (Kim)
update #7 An early contender for the annual Dominic Errazo Award (given to the entrant who makes it the furthest on the easiest words) is Chicago's Andrew Napora, who amid a bloodbath round with words like "amphisbaena," "pendeloque," and "rouen" drew the word TRUH-kyoo-lehnt instead. See, also, Talmage Nakamoto of Honolulu, drawing a word that's not exactly ihn-EKS-uh-ruh-buhl. (Adam) (Post bumped up.)
update #8 A happy song for Speller No. 116, Imogen Page, who's not quite old enough to appreciate it. (Happiness at the misfortune of others? That IS German!) (Adam)
update #9 Your Balderdash words for round 3, part one: torrefaction, gavelkind, robinsonade, braunschweiger, nyctipelagic ("of or pertaining to one of New York City's four island-based boroughs"), brodequin ("an essay written in a style which presumes one is capable of determining the conventional wisdom"), koinonia ("the state of perpetual buying of Japanese fish.") (Adam)
update #10 Put together one of my favorite Bee names this year -- Django Grootmyers of Lewis Center, Ohio -- and one of my favorite words -- oubliette (where it rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again) -- and we're 5/6 through this round. Foodie words causing trouble include tihm-BAHL, muh-SAL-uh, suh-muhl-YAY and teht-ruh-ZEEN-ee. (Adam)
update #11 Dan Steinberg talks to the spellers. My new theory: this year's Canadians are the Texans. On paper, at least, they're doing well. (Adam)
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