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Spelling Bee 2009: Kavya Shivashankar Wins on Laodicean

Kavya Shivashankar, an eighth grader from Olathe, Kansas, correctly spelled L-a-o-d-i-c-e-a-n to win the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday night. Kavya won at the end of a championship round in which runner-up Tim Ruiter was eliminated on "maecenas" and third-place finisher Aishwarya Pastapur was eliminated on...

Catching Up With Rebecca Sealfon, the 'Euonym' Girl

By far the most famous winner in the history of the National Spelling Bee is Rebecca Sealfon, the Brooklyn girl who jumped up and down and screamed the letters of "euonym," the word she spelled to win the 1997 title. (The video is still popular on YouTube.)According to her Wikipedia entry, Sealfon inspired a South Park...

Samir Patel Eliminated From National Spelling Bee

In a shocking upset, Scripps National Spelling Bee favorite Samir Patel was eliminated in the fifth round of this morning's competition, keeping the Bee's biggest star out of the prime time championship rounds. Patel was given the word "clevis," which he spelled "clevice."In the picture, Patel is being consoled by his...

Instant Replay Saves Speller Claire Zhang on 'Burelage'

I don't like the NFL's system of instant replay, and I like it even less in college football, but the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee has an excellent replay system in place. That replay saved Claire Zhang from elimination in the fifth round, when she spelled "burelage" correctly, but a judge misheard her and sounded...

Stuart Scott Begins Bee By Spelling 'Booya'

I really don't mean to pick on Stuart Scott, but he's on ESPN's morning broadcast of the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee, and in his first 10 seconds on camera, he told the viewers at home how to spell his catchphrase, "booya." Really. He was egged on by ESPN co-host Chris McKendry. Dan Shanoff is concerned that Mike...

SpellingBee News From the Web

06/02/11 http://twitter.com/JGWhiteAP Source: The Modesto Bee - Modesto CA JGWhiteAP I hope those who didn't make the semifinals at least get to leave with the #spellingbee home game. 41 spellers made the #SpellingBee semis.