7 Canadian Spellers will be moving on to the semi-finals on Fri May 30 viewed live on ESPN between 11:00 am - 2:00 pm or recorded on TSN, Channel 9 in Thunder Bay, at 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm:

#28 Jessica Zung, Toronto
#31 Curtis Bogetti, Kamloops
#32 Julie Huttemann, Okanagan
#34 Émilie Lafleur, Montreal
#39 Anqi Dong, Saskatoon
#43 Veronica Penny, Hamilton
#44 Grace Tsai, Vancouver

Nine of the thirteen Canadians made it through Round 3 of the Quarterfinals. They are:

#26 Cody Wang, Calgary SOLECIZE Correct: YES
#27 Jonathan Schut, Charlottetown VERIDICAL Correct: NO (*varitical)
#28 Jessica Zung, Toronto NIDICOLOUS Correct: YES
#30 Bethany Dickey, Halifax RESCINDABLE Correct: NO (*rescindable)
#31 Curtis Bogetti, Kamloops OPEROSITY Correct: YES
#32 Julie Huttemann, Okanagan ANXIOLYTIC Correct: YES
#34 Émilie Lafleur, Montreal RADICCHIO Correct: YES
#35 Emma Brownlie, Ottawa PROROGUE Correct: YES

Thirteen Canadians were among the 90 spellers scoring high enough in the Preliminaries to advance to the Quarterfinals. They are:

#44 Grace Tsai, grade 8, age 14, Vancouver Sun
# 32 Julie Huttemann, grade 8, age 12, Daily Courier/Penticton Herald, Okanagan
#31 Curtis Bogetti, grade 8, age 13, The Daily News, Kamloops
#36 Breanna Siemens, grade 8, age 13, Prince George Citizen
#26 Cody Wang, grade 8, age 13, Calgary Herald
#39 Anqi Dong, grade 8, age 13, The Star Phoenix, Saskatoon
#46 Rachel Stadder, grade 8, age 13, The Windsor Star

These are the 25 out of the 50 words that will be counted towards each speller's Preliminaries Score

miscible - nonpareil - cacoethes - harassment - tremolo -
complaisant - beignet - homage - pinyin - Pyrrhic -
midriff - loquacity - intermittence - avarice - Caribbean -epilepsy - eidetic - syringe - cygnet - galimatias -illegible - altogether - sinecure - guernsey - mustard

CORRECT SPELLING OF WORD EARNS SPELLER 3 BONUS POINTS:

#42 LOGAN TURNER, Thunder Bay BOCKWURST Correct: YES

#26 Cody Wang, Calgary LANGUOROUS Correct: YES
#27 Jonathan Schut, Charlottetown POLYPHONY Correct: YES
#28 Jessica Zung, Don Mills UNADULTERATED Correct: YES
#29 Austin Davis, Edmonton SOMNOLENTLY Correct: YES
#30 Bethany Dickey, Nova Scotia JUVENESCENCE Correct: YES
#31 Curtis Bogetti, Kamloops IMPARTIALITY Correct: YES
#32 Julio Huttemann, Kelowna EPITOME Correct: YES

On Tuesday, we got on the bus at 11:30 and rode for about half an hour to the Pavilions of Turkey Run for the Great American Barbecue. All you could see were beautiful trees, a million leaves, and amazing landscapes. When I got there I played volleyball, which I was terrible at, and then went for lunch. The meal was really organized and very tasty. After lunch I played softball and got to hit once where I got a double. Later they had a pitching tent set up where I threw a ball that the guy said was 45 miles per hour.

Today was a bus tour today. It was really cool because we went all over Washington just to see the war and president memorials. I thought the memorials in Ottawa were cool. The memorials here are many and great. After the tour I took the round 1 test. I can’t give any details but I will tell you how it works. You get 50 words to type into a computer but only 25 of those count. Each of those 25 words is worth 1 point. For me, there were some really easy words and some very difficult words.

It’s Friday 23rd and I am packing for the 81st National Scripps Spelling Bee in Washington DC. I will go up against 287 other spellers from across the world. I can’t exactly say I am not nervous because that is a lot of people and it will be viewed around the world. Even though I am really nervous I am also excited. Today we decided to pack everything to get ready for the trip to DC on Sunday. I hope that I will have time to continue blogging my activities so keep coming back for updates.

OTTAWA

Emma Brownlie didn't have to go far to win Canada's spelling bee. The Grade 8 Ottawa public school student outlasted 10 other spellers in a gruelling elimination round Saturday, just across the bridge in Gatineau, Que., to win the CanWest CanSpell national spelling competition.

With the grand auditorium of the Museum of Civilization transformed into a television studio, the finalists started spelling a series of words with a degree of difficulty that quickly went from bad to worse -- or, in Emma's case, from "scurrilous" through "troglodytic" to "molybdenum."

OTTAWA

Sylvester the Cat said it best: "Sufferin' succotash."

It's what the lovable Loony Tunes character uttered when he was stymied and it's the word that tripped up Thunder Bay's Logan Turner in the sixth round of the CanWest CanSpell National Spelling Bee here Friday.

The native American word for a dish made of lima beans and corn ends with "sh" but Logan spelled it "succatache" and with that, Thunder Bay's first run at Canadian spelling supremacy was over.