Here was my cue to crush the dear, but annoying old pronouncer.

During this time limit, a speller is allowed to ask the pronouncer for the word's:

During Finish Time, a speller may not make further requests to the pronouncer but rather must begin spelling the word.

Bailly became the Bee's chief pronouncer after the death of Alex Cameron in 2003.

In 1990, he wrote a letter to the National Spelling Bee organizers to offer his services and was hired as an associated pronouncer.

Miss Pronouncer.

Gill, "pronouncer on morality, upholder of decorum," also, busy fellow, experimented with bestiality.

Jacques Bailly succeeded him as the National Spelling Bee's pronouncer.

When he was not in school, Ain (pronouncer ANE) spent his childhood on the road with his mother.

Dr. Jacques A. Bailly, the event's official pronouncer (and 1980 champion), cleared his throat, and then the competition began.

Another amusing aspect of the show is that the official pronouncer, usually an improv comedian, provides ridiculous usage-in-a-sentence examples when asked to use words in a sentence.

Most bees whose winners advance to regional-level competition use the School Pronouncer's Guide, which contains a collection of Spell It!

The pronouncer is actually included in the sign. is a city in Briscoe County, Texas, Texas, United States.

She was the word pronouncer for Series 1 of Hard Spell, a BBC One spelling competition for children.

"We'd really rather have the pronouncer spelled like this," he said, then scribbled: "JEWLIANI."

The pronouncer, Jacques A. Bailly, started to call out the words, which all came from the New Webster's Third International Dictionary.

In 1978, he began accompanying fellow Dayton professor Richard Baker to the National Spelling Bee, where Baker had served as official pronouncer since the 1950s.

The end result of a mixed method is a casually phonetic student, a much better first-time pronouncer and speller, who still also has look-say acquisition, quick fluency and comprehension.

All spellers gathered at the Maryland Ballroom by 8:00 a.m. Jacques Bailly, the Bee's official pronouncer, pronounced each word, its language of origin, definition, and usage in a sentence.

Jacques, who went on to receive a doctorate in classics, was recently named the bee's chief pronouncer, replacing Alex Cameron, who appears in "Spellbound" and who died in February.

In late 2005, the BBC broadcast a full series of Star Spell, again presented by Eamonn Holmes but Mishal Husain took over from Nina as word pronouncer.

I can only see this plainly as a case of someone in Britain playing the not unfamiliar long distance role, in their mind, of judge, jury, lawmaker, and pronouncer of judgment by gut feelings and personal political policy, from afar.

Before the competition proper begins, Rona Lisa welcomes her all-important assistant, the evening's word pronouncer, Vice Principal Douglas Panch (Jay Reiss), from Lake Hemingway-Dos Passos Junior High.

When the first series of Star Spell - a spin-off of Hard Spell that had only appeared before as a one-off episode - aired, Husain appeared as word pronouncer, replacing Nina Hossain.

The whole family squeezes into Amy's bedroom and fires up the computer, and the familiar, baronial voice of the National Spelling Bee pronouncer, Alex J. Cameron, carefully enunciates each new addition to the list - aition, campanile, kittel, giaour.