June 2010

Language Links

After nine rounds in the finals, Anamika Veeramani won the 83rd Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee on June 4, 2010. The word that she successfully spelled in the ninth round to confirm her victory was stromuhr – a medical word for "a rheometer designed to measure the amount and speed of blood flow through an artery." (Rheometer takes its name from rheo meaning current or flow + the meter that measures).

Interested in words from the semifinal and final rounds of this year's Bee?

Interested in words that stumped or in some winning words from Bees gone by?

Finally, here's a page of study tips for would-be spellers.