You don't have to doff your glengarry or slurp your mulligatawny, but it wouldn't hurt. Spellers are being sought to compete in the sixth annual $1,000 National Adult Spelling Bee, Saturday, April 17 at 2 p.m. at Bay Shore Church, 5100 The Toledo.
Entry forms are available online. The fee is $30 in advance, $40 on the weekend of the event and low-income adults can enter for free. The winner will receive $1,000 to split equally with a favorite nonprofit, charity, school or church.
Rules are from the National Spelling Bee -- a contest for students through grade eight which is held annually in D.C.
The Adult Bee is expected to last two hours and has already attracted entrants from Alabama, Georgia, Arizona and California. Last year, 33 contestants competed in the two-hour competition. Anne Wright of Long Beach took first place in the 15th round, and she donated $500 to Jonathan Jaques Children's Cancer Center at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. She correctly spelled degauss and glengarry, defeating Janice Davis of Garden Grove, who misspelled mulligatawny. Third place went to Kinga Toth of Los Angeles.
Some misspelled words from previous Bees: abdominal, expendable, clavicle, jinx, cleanser, evacuate, abhorrence, Celsius, expertise, iota and coliseum.
Rudd also hosts a $1,000 National Elementary School Spelling Bee.
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