Home-schooled Lori Anne Madison became the youngest person to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The six-year-old made it to the third round before misspelling ‘ingluvies.” (For the uninitiated, that’s the name for a bird’s craw, or wide portion of the esophagus). The director of the annual contest pronounced the tiny contestant “charming.”
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