Sameer Mishra, from West Lafayette, Ind., carries his trophy after winning the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Friday.Sameer Mishra, from West Lafayette, Ind., carries his trophy after winning the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Friday.A tense duel between Sameer and Sidharth. I guess Becky and Thomas didn’t have time to prepare.
Congrats to all the contestants! The hubby and I watched and it was simply amazing to see these talented young people and their proud families.
It was a show that demonstrated how diversity in the United States can truly work.
God Bless America and especially the young talent that will lead our Country into the future.
PS: Gotta spell check my post!
I would’ve thought that GUERDON would form from GUER for fighting and DON for man, so it would be a Fighting Man. or at least a fighting speller.
Since there seemed to be no mention of the public or private school this young man goes to I am going to jump the gun and guess he is homeschooled.
Seems like these contests end all too often in the French language.
That’s ridiculous. NO one uses that word!
The Spelling Bees are racist. No (insert privileged ethnic minority here) ever wins the spelling bee. The tests must be biased. They favor Whites.
There must be race-norming on spelling bees. If you’re White, you get Test A - extremely hard.
If you’re (insert privileged ethnic minority here) you get Test B - example of words on Test B “bling ho (insert n-word here) (insert derisive term for women here) (insert obscene term associated with incest here)”
That’ll make it fair.
(bitter sarcasm)