NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 ROUND 8

Samia Nawaz respected every single letter in bowdlerize

Tia Thomas tackled shamateurism like a true pro.

The hair-twirling of Austin Pineda failed him on tralatitious. So that's one Californian down.

But Justin Song surfed through aurelian, dude.

Kyle Mou obviously had the key to cryptarithm.

Rose Sloan saw her way through hemeralopia.

Sameer Mishra made basenji roll over and beg.

Kavya Shivashankar burned up empyrean.

Sidharth Chand's spelling of tautological needed no repetition.

(Host Jacques Bailly sounds like John Malkovich.)

Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru was tres bon on Huguenot

Scott Remer spelled digerati like he was some sort of computer expert.

Jahnavi Iyer needed no medical advice to spell caduceus.

One down, eleven left!