Dallas duel: Wild card turns tables at National Spelling Bee

http://www.foxnews.com/ ^ | 6/1/18 | BEN NUCKOLS

[skinndogNN]

I saw a “Where are they now” type news thing of past winners of this spelling bee.

You would think, all these kids would go to Ivy League schools and end up doctors ect., but it was all over the map.

One of them was a zookeeper.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

How many of those kids are homeschooled? ...go to private schools? ...go to public schools?

[RinaseaofDs]

And the winning word was Greek.

Seems like cheating to me on the part of Scripps.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Exactly my thought as I heard some of the words used in earlier rounds. Need some Scrabble-type rules about words being in English. Of course, English is cobbled together from lots of other linguistic origins...

Cobbled?

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

-James Nicoll

[T-Bird45]

I say “cobbled” and you post the Nicoll quote about a “cribhouse whore.” Same/same, n’est-ce pas??? LOL!!

[T-Bird45]

I think I saw the ID bug underneath both the winner and the girl who lost shows they attend public middle schools in one of the Dallas metroplex suburbs.

[Kid Shelleen]

>> the ethnicity of the winner.<<

Karthik Nemmani's victory makes him the 14th consecutive Indian-American champion.