OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Tuesday had a rare bit of controversy.
Max Greenspan, a 13-year-old wild-card speller from Scottsdale, Arizona, was given"mot juste," an on-the-nose French phrase meaning"the exact, appropriate word."
"We could not definitively determine that he had given us a concrete signal that he was done," Brooks said."That was human error on our part. He could still be thinking, thinking, thinking. ... If you've got any doubt, you've got to make the right decision." For Karthik, the expense was worth it — he took home more than $40,000 in cash and prizes. But not every wild card is at Karthik's level, and the addition of wild cards has changed the tenor of the opening round. Of the 44 spellers who got words wrong in the round, 25 were wild cards.
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