In the world of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Jacques Bailly is a star. It's his voice that all the competitors hear as they stand on stage, ready to spell their hearts out.
"I am corrected at every turn because first of all, I have right beside me Dr. Sietsema, who used to be the pronunciation editor from Merriam-Webster," Bailly said."If I say anything remotely problematic, I am immediately told, 'Look, stop.' So, it's very, very hard for me to make a mistake." "That's the only word I remember that I ever spelled and that's 'elucubrate,'" he said."And it means to study, basically to study, to burn that midnight oil, sort of."When he's not expertly pronouncing the seemingly unpronounceable, Bailly is a professor of classics at the University of Vermont. He returned to the buzz of the Bee for one main reason.
"My biggest advice for spellers is that you should study really hard and learn as much as you can," Bailly said."Spell it the way you think it should be spelled. Go with your gut and go with a simple spelling because most words in the end are sort of spelled the way they sound."
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