Spelling Bee: Can these parents spell as well as their kids?

Name: Spelling Bee: Can these parents spell as well as their kids?
Uploaded: 2019-05-30T22:51:18.000Z
Duration: 2 min 6 s
Description: Children at this year's US National Spelling Bee are facing words like horripilation and parochialism.

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Horripilation, kentledge and parochialism - just three of the words facing children competing in this year's US Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland.

Can their parents do any better? We asked those brave enough to try - and also got some tips from the 2018 champion.

Video by Angélica Casas and Chloe Kim

US & Canada

30 May 2019