Spelling Bee Winners

The Friends of the Library's 4th Annual Adult Spelling Bee—'It's written, not oral—was a rousing success on Sunday. The new champion speller is Virginia Gaines. Second place went to Saul Cohen. Third, fourth & fifth, Jack Huberman, Dorothea Migliori, and Kate Gallagher. Many many thanks to Commodicast for organizing the event this year, donating prizes, and donating the entry fees to the Friends—the real winner was the library!!Alas. A confession of techno-incompetence here: We had nice photographs of the winner and runner-up, but I accidentally reformatted the camera before I got the pictures out of it.

So what do adult spellers spell? Here are the Round 3 and Round 4 sets of words.

googol omasum amphibrach zymurgy tachyon nunchaku asystole tauromachy capsaicin psilocybin

mho kokanee platyrrhine exsiccate geoduck tokamak kwashiorkor cacoethes eisteddfod sprezzatura

Some of these words are awfully obscure... but you could try looking them up in the online Merriam-Webster's