Exclusive secrets of National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion

OXON HILL, Md.—As the final pre-competition meeting of the Scripps National Spelling Bee’s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care. Before panelists can debate the words picked for the bee, they need to hear each word and its language of origin, part…

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