For decades, the word panel’s work has been a closely guarded secret.
A speller prepares for a turn in the quarterfinals during the Scripps National Spelling Bee on June 1, 2022, in National Harbor, Md. — As the final pre-competition meeting of the‘s word selection panel stretches into its seventh hour, the pronouncers no longer seem to care.
The word gleyde , which means a decrepit old horse and is only used in Britain, has a near-homonym — glyde — with a similar but not identical pronunciation and a different meaning. Shivashankar says the near-homonym makes the word too confusing, and the rest of the panel quickly agrees to spike gleyde altogether. It won’t be used.
“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. The group includes five former champions: Barrie Trinkle , Bailly, George Thampy , Sameer Mishra and Shivashankar.
“The dictionary is on the computer and is highly searchable in all kinds of ways — which the spellers know as well. If they want to find all the words that entered the language in the 1650s, they can do that, which is sometimes what I do,” Trinkle says. “The best words kind of happen to you as you’re scrolling around through the dictionary.”
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