O-R-I-G-I-N-A-L-I-S-M: A very warm welcome to our visitors from Instapundit and National Review Online. We're big fans of Justice Scalia's great spelling and impeccable grammar, too, and share his love for dictionaries of all shapes, sizes, and vintages.

SOMETHING ABOUT YOU THAT I CAN'T SHAKE; BABY, I'M UNDER YOUR SPELL: Looks like we've got some company on the blogosphere. Visit . . . link deleted -- we've overwhelmed what was supposed to be a private site. -ab

Here's what we'll do: after round four is over today, I'll set up a Pick A Winner Thread starting at 7pm eastern tonight. Every user of this site gets one selection of the remaining competitors, first-come, first-served. Winner gets fame and glory forever.

And, boom, Round 4 is underway, and bodies are hitting the floor. Sure, you may wear LAY-duhr-ho-zen or play the GLOK-uhn-speel, but how about ih-DUHL-kuh-rait, meaning, "to sweeten".

YOU'RE A TEARJERKER, BABY, BUT I'M UNDER YOUR SPELL: Round three is happening as we speak, with about an 80% success rate so far.

Thus far, a fairly easy round:

• uh-STIG-muh-tiz-uhm: that eye thing.
• hah-buh-NYAIR-oh: the hot stuff.
• PURR-juh-ree: claiming to not know the meaning of "is".
• nuh-FAIR-ee-uhss: a word never seen without the word "scheme" following it.
• PISS-ta-shee-oh: you're nuts if you can't spell it.

Still, someone was knocked out on KWAH-fyoor, and she'll want to wash that word out of her hair for a long, long time.

Comments open for your ongoing commentary on good words, bad words and everything in-between.

MY SO-CALLED FRIENDS HAVE FALLEN UNDER A SPELL: Round three has begun, but first, let's look at the qualifiers.

Of the ALOTT5MA S-P-E-L-L-E-R-S of the Day, three-peaters Samir Patel and Nektarios Vasilottos are in, but, sadly, among the eliminated were Calvin Lau (dad stationed in Germany), Philadelphia's Tricia Powles, New Zealand's Charlotte Roose and Larisa Pachuta, who's got plenty of time for her freeze-dried ice cream now.

Regrettably, Morgan Gilliam, the youngest entrant at age 9, whose "main goal is just not to miss the first word they give", missed her first word: PO-dill-uh-juss, meaning "having pollen baskets on the legs". She'll be back.

THANKFULLY, RICH'S HATCH WILL REMAIN PIXELATED: TAR and Survivor reruns are headed for cable (on GSN and the Outdoor Life Network, respectively). For those of us who came late to TAR, including myself, this'll be a chance to catch up on prior seasons without shelling out the money for DVD or clogging up the Netflix queue. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Bee-related programming.

I'LL TAKE THAT BET: Dark blogospheric overlord Nick Denton has launched yet another blog. This one, Oddjack, foxues on betting of all shapes and sizes, from the World Series of Poker to "event betting" on everything from the winner of "Hell's Kitchen" to the yes/no margin in today's EU Constitution vote in the Netherlands. Among the early features are Oddjack's odds on selected Bee participants, which may be of interest to you. (And did you know that the various Gawker trademarks are held by a Hungarian entity?)

SPEAKING OF WHICH: The words for round one are now online.

For me, it starts getting tricky around #16, but I have a feeling Western PA's Joe Levri had no problem with it.

Round two has begun, with all kids competiting in order of home state, and you can follow it live online. Victoria Shih is, apparently, not Jewish, and it's not going well for the children from the Land of Lincoln.

edited to add: Round two is complete. From the very-in-the-news-last-year "catafalque" to a kid born four years after the fall of the Iron Curtain missing "perestroika" to an abundance of food words ("cappelletti", "vichyssoise", "sorrel", "andouille", "jicama" and a zillion others), we have much to discuss.

Round two words that I think most of us could have spelled in our sleep, and will haunt the kids who had to face "trichotillomania" instead?

• ahn-WEE -- how I feel when there's nothing good stored on my TiVo.
• AHRM-uh-stiss -- the end of a war; day on which Paul Simon says the Philharmonic will play
• sur-OH-suss -- when your liver's messed up
• SILL-uh and kuh-RIB-diss -- those two places in that myth you don't want to be.
• ses-kwee-sen-TENN-ee-uhl -- stuff that happened 150 years ago
• ZITE-guyst -- thing that Nick Denton is searching for
• TEHMP-ay -- hippie food
• ruh-SID-uh-viz-um: because otherwise, you'll do it again
• pa-AY-yuh: George Costanza's mom's favorite dish

Take over in the comments.