[Cronos]

9th consecutive winners of Indian ancestry

[Gene Eric]

Congrats to both. But where the heck is Painted Post, NY?

[wbarmy]

None of the four words listed in that excerpt were actually English words. SO the English Spelling Bee is now an international spelling bee with words drawn from any language?

[wbarmy]

None of the four words listed in that excerpt were actually English words. SO the English Spelling Bee is now an international spelling bee with words drawn from any language?

[Jack Hammer]

Puts me in mind of a pretty funny black comedy that came out a while back, all about spelling bees and so on.

Can anybody recall the title?

[txrefugee]

And Reuters thinks H-O-U-S-T-O-N on Nihar’s name tag spells “Austin.”

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

You mean a chinese kid didn’t win? Racism.

[beejaa]

I tutor lots of kids whose parents are Indian immigrants. The parents instill in them a strong drive to get a good education.