Lori Anne Madison, the youngest person to ever qualify for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, was eliminated from competition today after she misspelled the word Ingluvies. The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports that Madison, just 6-years-old, fell four shorts point of making the semifinals at the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee. Madison said: “I was really [...] Lori Anne Madison, Yo
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Lori Anne Madison, the 6-year-old baby genius who made history as the youngest contestant ever to be made eligible for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, was eliminated from the competition yesterday (just shy of the semifinals roun... Read Post
In the end, Lori Anne Madison couldn’t charm the judges into accepting her misspelling. But the 6-year-old still managed to win the crowd’s hearts as the youngest person ever to compete in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. T... Read Post
"I was just stressed. It was a really, really long wait," Lori Anne says. "Overall, it was just boring. Really boring! Really boring!" Read Post