A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

EMAIL? NO, REALLY? Imagine you're competing in the 76th annual Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. Imagine you're facing "quincunx" or "kwashiorkor" in round one. One error, and you're gone.

Now, imagine how pissed you'd be if your fellow spellers got any of the following words while you had to struggle:

reminiscences
replevin
estoppel
libretto
sanguine
meniscus
Eucharist
nascent
email

That's right: while poor Shruti Mishra of West Lafayette, IN was faced with "phthisiology", Grant Remmen of Detroit Lakes, MN got "email".

Your round one words and results are here. The competition continues tomorrow morning, on ESPN, at 10am. (Then MathCounts at noon!)

And yes, I'm still bitter that when I was in elementary school, I competed in the city-level bee and got knocked out on "dowdily" when a kid the next round was asked to spell "sundae". Yes, sundae. You'd be bitter too.

edited to add, 6-2-2007: This item has been corrected. Our apologies to Grant Remmen.