2007 Spelling Bee Results

!st Place        LOVELY LADIES:  Frances Figurski, Marlene Trowbridge, Cornelia
                                                        Hart.

2nd Place      DOG EARS BOOKSTORE:  Pam Grath, Marilyn Zimmerman

3rd Place:      EXCEL's SUPER SPELLERS:  Ken Walton, Pat McKenna, Connie
                       Argyle

This year's contest was a battle to the finish, with 9 teams participating, and it took 11 rounds to whittle things down to the last two teams. In the final stage, with only two teams left, the rules require that a misspelled word go to the other team to be corrected, then back to the first team if another misspelling occurs. It keeps getting batted back and forth if necessary.

The word fuchsia turned out to be a huge stumbling block.  Misspellings included fuschia, fuscha, fuchia (twice!), and fuscia. Finally, the Lovely Ladies spelled it correctly, then validated the win by spelling diphtheria.

Our congratulations to all the participants. There wasn't a loser among them.

WORDS ACTUALLY USED IN THE 2007 BEE

jewelry           occurrence          deceive          galloping        lieutenant

amateur         grievous              pestilence      mileage          pestilence

sassafras       bisque               eligible            hygiene          recommendation

plausible       wrangle               believable      carburetor      delicatessen

preferred      recalcitrant          omitted          privilege         persistence

vengeance   controlled            humiliate        leisurely          oscillation

supercilious voluminous         chauvinism    epicurean        scissors

clientele       disappoint          hemorrhoid    rhythmical        thirtieth

vacuous       aerosol               compatible    exorcist            fluorescent

misspelled  persistent            quandary      sacrilegious      colossal

garrulous     innocuous          legionnaire    moccasin          resuscitate

saccharin    tranquility            usable            unwieldy          accede

supersede  bailiff                  caffeine          Caribbean      collectible

exhilarate    demagogue       connoisseur   fuchsia          diphtheria