It will count for 50% of a speller's overall score and will help determine which competitors take part in the semifinal and championship rounds.

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They were the last survivors from a field from a field of 281 contenders who arrived to compete for the title of champion speller of the English language.

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The Queens speller, who finished in the top-10 the past two years, churned through words like glassophagine and chalumeau with only a sly smile, indicating he'd studied them many times over.

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Young Eliza Naumann (Flora Cross) is a champion speller.

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This year, 6-year-old Lori Anne Madison, the youngest speller on record with the Scripps National Spelling Bee, told the Washington Post that she doesn't feel undue pressure during Bee competition.

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The 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee inched round-by-round toward a conclusion Thursday night, with 11 finalists remaining from the 281 contenders who arrived to compete for the title of champion speller of the English language.

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The Portbury line was reopened in December 2001, when the then Transport Minister John Speller joined 150 people on a steam train journey through the Avon Gorge from Bristol's Parson Street station to Royal Portbury Dock.

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Others include Gordon Roddick, the widower of Body Shop founder Anita Roddick, from the Roddick Foundation, and Thomas Hughes-Hallett, of the Emily Hughes-Hallet Fund and also chief executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care charity, and Marcelle Speller of Localgiving.com.

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Marcelle Speller, founder and chief executive of localgiving.com, a website which links small charities and community projects with philanthropists, has said that although she is still very passionate about local giving, it is "galling" to think that the money she has given over the years is now being seen as a tax dodge.

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