Spelling Bee Round 2

Spelling Bee Round 2, An eighth-grader from Earl Warren Middle School in Solana Beach accurately spelled agriculture in Wednesday's additional annular of the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee in National Harbor, Maryland.

The actual spelling advances Oona Mary Nikko Flood to the third round, which will be captivated afterwards Wednesday at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center.

Spellers who spell their third-round chat accurately can be a allotment of the best of 50 spellers advancing to Thursday's semifinals if their account on the multiple-choice spelling and cant analysis taken Tuesday is top enough.

A misspelling in either the additional or third annular agency the adversary is eliminated. The semifinalists will be appear afterwards the cessation of the third round.

Geoponics is a noun acceptation an art or science of cultivating the earth.

The additional and third circuit will be apparent by the broadband arrangement ESPN3 from 5-8:45 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.-2:45 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.

The bee is bound to acceptance in eighth brand or below, with contestants alignment in age from 9 to 15 years old. The acreage consists of acceptance who won locally sponsored bees in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, forth with American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Department of Defense schools in Europe.

Seven adopted nations are aswell represented -- the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan and South Korea.

The semifinals will be apparent on ESPN2 from 7-10 a.m. Thursday and the finals from 5-7 p.m. Thursday on ESPN. All of the advantage can aswell be apparent on the WatchESPN app.

Throughout the competition, ESPN3 and WatchESPN will accept a multiple-choice "Play-Along" adaptation acceptance admirers to accept a one-in-three adventitious to aces the actual spelling.

Informational boxes highlighting the word's etymology, definition, accentuation and allotment of speech, forth with reside tweets and the speller's biography, accept been added to the "Play-Along" version.

The champ will accept $30,000 from Scripps, which owns television stations, cable networks and newspapers; $5,000 from the makers of the multi-player chat bold Words With Friends; a $2,500 U.S. accumulation band and complete advertence library from the concordance administrator Merriam-Webster; and $1,100 in advertence works from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a three-year associates to Britannica Online Premium.
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