I'll just be rooting for Lucy from here on out. Ethan was done in yesterday afternoon by "pygopodous." Contrary to popular belief that is not the art of bouncing on a pogo stick as we used to do as kids. It's a word that's not even in my Webster's New World.

It is "of or pertaining to the Pygopodes." And that, of course, is
"a division of swimming birds which includes the grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back."

My nephew was nonetheless upbeat about his experience, according to media reports from the scene.

*****UPDATE****
The key to success in the bee is to not have me rooting for you. Lucy was bounced this morning on "araneiform," which she spelled very closely as "areneiform." It means "having the form of a spider."

- Terri Hallenbeck