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Manitoba spelling champ in the running at U.S. competition
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Manitoba spelling champion Ye-Young Won (right) and fellow contestant Madeline Gallard watch Round 2 today of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington.
Manitoba spelling champion Ye-Young Won has spelled her second word correctly at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C.
She correctly spelled inenarrable, which means indescribable or not capable of being narrated.
So far in the second of two oral rounds today, only 18 of 32 spellers have been right.
The Grade 6 student from J.B. Mitchell School in Winnipeg spelled "unnatural" correctly this morning during the first oral round of competition, when only 27 of 293 spellers misspelled their word.
The 293 spellers took a written test on Tuesday.
Scores from that test will be added to the results of the two rounds of oral spelling today, to determine which 50 spellers go on in the competition. Scripps has not made the written results public yet, so the spellers do not know how they stand.
There will be one point apiece for written words, and three points apiece for each of the two oral words spelled.
By winning the Winnipeg Free Press Regional Spelling Bee in March, Ye-Young qualified not only for the Canwest Canspell National Spelling Bee in Ottawa last month, but she also got a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
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