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...that time, Mary Gilliland, whose thick drawl had made trouble for the judges, was clearly over her head: in Round 23, she spelled eudaemonic with a "y" That left Sandra facing only Dana...
...Extra "O." The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous. Then, when the pronouncer had only six of his 630 words left, Sandra spelled Xylophagus with a g-o-u-s, and Dana got it right. It seemed as if Sandra had wound up exactly as she had a year ago-until the judges found that her xylophagous was acceptable...
When she learned that she still had a chance, Sandra burst into tears. Handlers bustled her out into the hall and finally, red-eyed and minus her glasses, she was able to resume. Dana got grisaille, Sandra videlicet. Sandra also got logomachy, while Dana got triskelion and cuproiodar-gyrite. With that, all 630 words were gone, but someone happened to have a supplementary list...
...Extra "P." Sandra got trirhomboidal, and when Dana spelled lapicide with an "s," her first chance of victory. But Sandra was even further off with lappiside. Dana spelled nasillate nasalate, but Sandra muffed again with nasilate. The same thing happened when Dana turned scelotyrbe into scelloturby, and Sandra made it skelloturby. The girls recovered on cerumen, chaffinch and ichneumon. Then the pronouncer said: "Schappe...
...Said Sandra...