Meanwhile, our S-P-E-L-L-E-R of the Day is Samir Patel of Colleyvile, TX, about to hit the Bee for his third try:
Words tumble out of his mouth so quickly that adults sometimes struggle just to keep up. His hands fly when he talks, and his vocabulary might lead you to believe he is actually a very short college freshman.
"My son does not want for words, does he?" Jyoti jokes.
But he is 11 years old. Video games are big. He devours Harry Potter books, shoots baskets in the driveway, throws the football around and invents elaborate games using sticks he finds in the back yard.
One day, he swears, he will own the Dallas Cowboys.
Last year's error? This little "man in motion" whiffed on KOR-puh-zuhnt, meaning "flamelike electrical discharge from ship's masts, steeples, etc., in thundery weather; St. Elmo's fire."
Also on her way to D.C. is New Zealand's Charlotte Roose, her nation's first representative in this competition.
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