Check out this photo from Wednesday’s opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington:
That is Rebecca Willett of Virginia Beach, the Pilot’s representative in the bee. Yes, she competed wearing a nametag that misspelled the name of her home state.
Yay, ‘Becca. Boo, Scripps.
Sadly, she faltered in the fourth round late Wednesday on the word “gastrilegous” — a word “absent from many dictionaries,” reporter Lauren Roth points out.
For a girl who has wanted to compete in the national bee since age 4, being there was a big deal. Earlier this school year, she sold an Xbox she won in a spelling bee to buy dictionaries and spelling software. She included spelling exercises in a daily routine that already included hours of piano practice.
This photo, by the Pilot’s Delores Johnson, was our B-section lede art today. Minus the little red arrow, of course.
Read our story here:
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=125741&ran=16001
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didn’t virginia on a ncaa championship t-shirt get misspelled too? that’s so awesome. great photo.
hi, i am one of the spelling bee contest.
tomorrow will be my contest in my school and i am sure that i´ll to win this are my words:
car
cat
beer
sun
general
index
light
baby
boy
girl
tree
they are very easy