NATIONAL SPELLING BEE 2008 ROUND 9

Will Ferrell + Steve Carell = Funny!

Samia Nawaz had one shot at monogoneutic...and made the most of it!

Tia Thomas, five-time returnee, didn't need to leave after getting monster word brankursine.

Justin Song left no room for interpretation when it came to spelling Rorschach, which

Kyle Mou flew through trochiline—impressive!

Rose Sloan used hyperventilation technique to bottle up alcarraza and make it into the next round.

INSTANT CLASSIC!!!! Sameer Mishra got the word numnah. Heh. Hey, Beavis—Bailly said numnah. Sameer spelled it right. And understood why everyone was laughing.

(I think this will go straight to host Tom Bergeron's show.)

Kavya Shivashankar qualified for the academic pantheon with epideictic.

Sidharth Chand saw his way through ommateal.

Catherine (Cat) Cojocaru really cooked on boulangére (without specifying the accent).

Scott Remer didn't have to leave after spelling his way through ranunculaceous.

Jahnavi Iyer spake and thrusted her way through the consonant cluster in Nietzschean.

Everyone makes it into the next round!