The word list for the Scripps National Spelling Bee is crafted by a panel of 21 people, including five former Scripps champions.
Hearing the words aloud with the entire panel present — laptops open to Merriam-Webster's Unabridged dictionary — sometimes illuminates problems. That's what happened late in Sunday's meeting. Kavya Shivashankar, the 2009 champion, now an obstetrician/gynecologist and a recent addition to the panel, chimed in with an objection.
“Harvey ... made the whole list,” Bailly says. “I never met him. I was just told, ‘You’re the new Harvey.'”This year's meeting includes five full-time bee staffers and 16 contract panelists. The positions are filled via word of mouth within the spelling community or recommendations from panelists. Now, more often than not she goes directly to the source — Merriam-Webster's Unabridged. That's easier than it used to be.
“They are fun and challenging for me and they make me smile, and I know if I was a speller I would be intimidated by that word,” says the 28-year-old Mishra, who just finished his MBA at Harvard. “I have no fear about running out , and I feel good about that.
“They’ve started to understand they have to push further into the dictionary,” says Shourav Dasari, a 20-year-old former speller and a co-founder with his older sister Shobha of SpellPundit, which sells study guides and hosts a popular online bee. “Last year, we started seeing stuff like tribal names that are some of the hardest words in the dictionary.”Members of the panel insist they worry little about other bees or the proliferation of study materials and private coaches.
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