50 spellers move on to the National Spelling Bee semifinals

Lena Greenberg was in constant motion as she stood waiting for her turn at the microphone at the National Spelling Bee — arms waving, feet dancing, head bobbing.Most of us cannot spell. That is why we have phones. So the Scripps National Spelling Bee is usually an exercise in pointlessly abstruse knowledge. I could not spell “meiji” or “fantocini” or whatever those strange sub-tropical creatures are that keepUpdate: The full list of semifinalists was posted by the Scripps National

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