Three Bay Area middle-schoolers are among the 243 competitors at this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, which started ...

Synovial Joint Types: - A hinge joint (ginglymus joint) is a joint in which the articular surfaces are shaped so that motion is permitted primarily in one plane. Usually, these joints have a ...

After 50 rounds, only the rock star spellers remained onstage — a pair of orthographic tail-kickers who nailed every obscure word Merriam-Webster could throw: ginglymus, widdershins and cynocephali.

The preliminary rounds were Saturday, and Ayushi Sainath got the word "ginglymus," which is a noun, the origin is Greek, and it means a hinge-like joint that operates on a single plane like the ...

That may be what it takes to place in the nationals. The local competition used a booklet of 5,000 words — including ginglymus and caixinha — that seem beyond the ken of a middle-school kid.