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Orange County resident YY Liang, age 12, of New Windsor, is one of eight kids who made it through five rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals, advancing to the Thursday, May 30 finals, which will be shown live on iON television at 8 p.m.
Four of the Elite 8 are from California and Texas (two from each state), and the others are from California, Colorado, North Carolina, and Florida.
Liange is a nationally-ranked junior tennis player who enjoys video games and has a talent for drawing.
A seventh-grader, Liang correctly answered the following words in advancing to the finals:
- luftmensch luftmensch
- What is a portico? A covered walkway typically at the entrance of a building
- prima facie prima facie
- palberry palberry
- What is a keystone? The wedge-shaped piece at the crown of an arch
- sauteur sauteur
- What is a fjord? A deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs
- pinguin pinguin
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