More than 1,800 pupils from across the island gathered at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre yesterday for the biggest Big Spell ever
Filling exhibition halls the size of about eight basketball courts, the participants in the preliminary round of the RHB-The Straits Times National Spelling Championship had to spell 50 words.
The top 20 or so spellers in each zone - north, south, east and west - will be selected for the next round. Yesterday's round started with easy words such as "leisure" before the pupils were challenged with the likes of "haberdashery" and "guillotine".
