Oliver and Katelyn were among 148 spellers from the original field of 245, the largest since 2019, to advance to the quarterfinals
The Los Angeles and Orange County contestants in the Scripps National Spelling Bee were both eliminated in the fourth round Wednesday.Oliver Halkett, a 12-year-old sixth grader who attends The Mirman School in Brentwood, misspelled desinent, an adjective meaning forming an end. He spelled it "desonant."Katelyn Nguyen, a seventh grader at Helen Stacey Middle School in Huntington Beach, misspelled ritsu, a Hinayana Buddhist school founded in Japan in 754. She spelled it "ritzu.
He then chose the correct answer to the vocabulary question "Acerbity is?" selecting "a manner that is harsh, biting or irritated."In the third round, Oliver correctly spelled doxycycline, a broad- spectrum tetracycline antibiotic used orally to treat various bacterial infections.Katelyn correctly spelled ubi sunt, the Latin phrase meaning of or relating to a type of poetry reflecting on transience and mortality.
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