After Round 8—11 Remain

Fri, May 30, 2008 - 7:24 PM

8:34 p.m.

I think the easiest word of the round is a toss-up -- "shamateurism" seemed simple, but "digerati?"

Even I could have spelled that one.

I particularly like Sidharth Chand's technique. He really uses a finger to spell out each letter. But unlike some contestants who do that and then look up to say the spelling, Chand says each letter as he pretends to write it. That's what got him through tautological in round 8.

Round 9, here we come.

-Neil Simon